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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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Jun 25, 2018

The reason that we know this is a Muslim ban and the reason that people are very disappointed in the court's decision goes to the heart of justice Sotomayor descending this ruling.

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Jun 25, 2018

What Mitch McConnell and the House -- the Senate Republicans did to Barack Obama had not been done in over 100 years to any sitting president.

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Jun 17, 2018

We have a larger immigration discussion that needs to be had, but right now Donald Trump is causing a humanitarian crisis.

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Jun 17, 2018

Donald Trump can pick up the phone, resend this policy, speak to his secretary at HHS and make -- or excuse me, Homeland Security, and make sure that these children are not taken away, ripped away from their family.

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May 6, 2018

If you think there is -- that coming out and talking about cyberbullying when you can't go down the hall and control the biggest cyber bully we have in the United States, then that irony is completely dead.

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May 6, 2018

The President of the United States is a horrible client to have. Just imagine someone that you cannot control at all.

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Apr 26, 2018

Donald Trump doesn't make good decisions, I guess outside of Nikki Haley who is the most popular elected official or cabinet member in the country.

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Apr 26, 2018

Collusion is not a crime. There are no federal statutes that say collusion is a crime so forth and so on.

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Apr 25, 2018

The failure is that the President of the United States and his staff are lazy.

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Apr 25, 2018

I think one of the things we learned today is something that we already knew, reaffirmation. And so if you are the lawyer for Donald Trump, you saw this morning that your client is undisciplined, which you already knew, you also know that…

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Apr 22, 2018

this breeding concept is not new. In fact this is language that's ripped right out of white nationalist Nazi sympathizers.

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Apr 22, 2018

this is the same man who said that Ted Cruz's father was part of the assassination attempt on JFK. This is the same man who called Heidi Cruz ugly.

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Apr 22, 2018

this breeding concept where you refer to animals that way. Of course it was derogatory.

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Apr 3, 2018

The reason that it is policy is because when these tariffs are announced, it affects real people. You have pork farmers right now in Iowa who are terrified.

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Mar 6, 2018

This is how Donald Trump operates. This is how he operated his business, this is how he operated at 'The Apprentice,' he's operating the White House like this.

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Mar 6, 2018

A lot of America is sitting back saying, OK. I get that. We dealt with the Clinton era, but now let's deal with the Trump era. Where are all these Republicans today?

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Mar 5, 2018

When is enough enough? When are people going to actually stand up and say that, you know, this whole porn star affair thing may be the straw that broke the camel's back.

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Feb 28, 2018

General McMaster, is someone that as a Democrat you're honestly thankful that he's there because he upholds some of the fundamental tenants of our democracy.

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Feb 28, 2018

This White House is damaged. This White House is not a place where any up and coming super star who is an expert in his or her field wants to work.

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Feb 7, 2018

The White House treats this like they treat everything else. They treat it as a P.R. problem.

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Jan 28, 2018

I am so distraught not as a Democrat, not as a South Carolinian, but just as an American today because the Republican Party has let the tenets of our democracy just fall at the wayside.

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