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Bakari Sellers

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Bakari Sellers is a prominent Democratic political figure and commentator from South Carolina. He gained national recognition as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he served from 2006 to 2014. Sellers has been an advocate for social justice, education reform, and healthcare access, often speaking on issues affecting the African American community. After leaving office, he has continued to influence public discourse through his work as a political analyst and author.

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May 3, 2017

You have 20 million more people who have health insurance because of Barack Obama.

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Apr 13, 2017

This is just an American responsibility, transparency issue. That's not Donald Trump's house. That's the taxpayers' house. And he works for the taxpayers of this country.

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Apr 13, 2017

As a Democrat, I can tell you, we're looking for just examples of comfort throughout the administration, and I guess Gary is this close to that comfortability as you'll get.

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Apr 12, 2017

Donald Trump is trying to bring Democrats to the table to gut a piece of legislation which has insured many and saved lives.

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Apr 12, 2017

The fact is, from February 1st, 1960, when the students at North Carolina anti-state university decided they were going to sit in and they started something that was amazing with the sit in movement, so people like Ella Baker, and Fannie…

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Apr 12, 2017

In our political discourse we have to remove these Hitler and Nazi comparisons, Donald Trump is not Martin Luther King Jr., we've taken this to a place where it doesn't need to be.

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Apr 12, 2017

This argument that you're making is fundamentally flawed. And this crisis that you're talking about creating, this is not some game to pass a piece of legislation.

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Mar 9, 2017

I do think that the ineptitude of the transition is something we keep coming back to.

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Mar 9, 2017

Yes. I don't think -- I think politically speaking it's not that big of a story because it's something that has happened.

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Mar 8, 2017

The president, the vice president, the chief of staff, his press secretary, Kellyanne Conway, have all gone out of their way to say that the campaign had no contact with Russia.

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Mar 8, 2017

I mean, when Donald Trump makes comments about the president wiretapping him, it puts people in the mode of birtherism 2.

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Jan 20, 2017

I expect the president of the United States to actually tell the truth.

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Jan 20, 2017

The fact that people believe somehow that this mean - and I have given Donald Trump this leeway to say it is not fair to compare yesterday.

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Jan 9, 2017

I think in fact it shows especially on young people, that we, too, can be a part of the change we want to see.

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Nov 16, 2016

Donald Trump does not deserve to be president of the United States based upon these accusations.

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Nov 16, 2016

The biggest problem with Ed's excuse, in many excuses, is that the Trump campaign started from a zero-sum game. And they said, we didn't have any contact with the Russians at all.

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Nov 16, 2016

If you give Al Franken the benefit of the doubt, it's a picture. So, what? ... None of them belong in elected office.

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Nov 2, 2016

Donald Trump has not led in a poll in Wisconsin. He has not led in a poll in Michigan. He has not led in a poll in Pennsylvania.

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Nov 2, 2016

The reason that you're having this amazing rally on Monday night, where you have all the rock stars, you have Hillary Clinton, you have Bill Clinton, you have Barack and Michelle Obama in Philadelphia the night before the election is…

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Nov 1, 2016

Well I think it's disturbing and it worries you a little bit. But what worries me even more is what the president was talking about when he talked about the surgical precision that government -- Governor McCory in the North Carolina…

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Nov 1, 2016

In Florida, up until this point, they've had 139 percent increased in Hispanic turnout.

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Nov 1, 2016

And let me just tell you one thing, we've come a long way when it comes to the right to vote in this country. And I'm not sure that African-Americans in North Carolina are going to let Governor McCory or anybody else prevent them from…

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