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Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum is a former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his conservative positions on social issues, including opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. During his tenure, Santorum was involved in various legislative efforts, including those related to healthcare and education reform. He gained national prominence during his 2012 presidential campaign, where he focused on issues such as economic growth and family values.

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Apr 23, 2018

On the travel budget, let's just be very clear. He has a budget. Is he over his budget? No.

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Apr 23, 2018

I suspect he feels like the team he has around him will sufficiently prepare him for the questions.

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Apr 23, 2018

The reason Scott Pruitt may survive this is because he's actually policy driven and he's actually doing things in this administration and conservatives wanted to do.

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Apr 23, 2018

I think you just hit on something that I hear a lot on the right, is I don't care about anything. I just want to piss off my political opponents.

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Apr 23, 2018

He has been one of the best cabinet secretaries that the President has and following through what the President promised in this election.

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Apr 23, 2018

Look, first I don't think the pardons that he issued to Joe Arpaio or to Scooter Libby were a controversial scare.

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Apr 23, 2018

I think any rational politician is not going to run and say, we don't care what anybody says about him, they're going to look at the accusations.

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Mar 12, 2018

I think it is clear, I would rather in Conor Lamb's shoes right now than Rick Saccone.

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Mar 12, 2018

Rick Saccone is a conservative. He's been a very outspoken so he was running for the United State Senate by the way before he decided to switch and run for Congress. He was running as the most conservative guy running for the United States…

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Mar 12, 2018

If you run a traditional Democrat in that district, a Bernie Sanders/Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama Democrat, it's not close.

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Mar 12, 2018

It's always a bad election for the party in power and we have a President that's a very polarizing President.

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Mar 12, 2018

I think the days of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are over.

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Mar 12, 2018

Conor Lamb was the absolutely right candidate and he didn't get through a primary.

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Mar 12, 2018

Conor Lamb says, no, we haven't, here I am, you can vote for me, it's safe.

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Mar 12, 2018

I keep coming back to the fact, 25,000 more registered Democrats, you can say during county it's a Republican area, yes it votes Republican in national elections.

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Mar 12, 2018

there are going to be a lot more Conor Lambs on the ballot because Democrats are energized, more candidate are running and better candidates are running.

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Mar 12, 2018

I don't see Lamb's lead growing much in Allegheny County. And almost everything out in Washington County is going to be good for Saccone.

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Mar 12, 2018

You also had the firing of Rex Tillerson. If it's down to 100 or 200 votes, wait until tomorrow.

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Mar 12, 2018

If Rick Saccone can and hold down counters vote there. I think Rick's going to do well in the -- in the and the out counties.

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Mar 12, 2018

He was for Saccone and Saccone was for Trump and I disagree with you, Jason. I mean, Rick Saccone is a conservative.

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Mar 12, 2018

Conor had done a great job insulating himself. And look, he's a marine. He's good-looking. He's got a great family name.

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Mar 6, 2018

If President Obama -- if it had been revealed that he had paid off somebody for $130,000 before becoming President in the final days of a campaign, wouldn't that be a huge deal on the right?

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Mar 6, 2018

I'm not suggesting that it shouldn't be a huge deal, and I'm not suggesting... that somehow there's a moral equivalency between what Donald Trump did 10 years before he was President and what Bill Clinton did in the White House with an…

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Mar 6, 2018

Most Republicans have gone along, but I think most are uncomfortable with it.

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