“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordJune 24, 2020
Voting by proxy, is this what was intended by the Founders, the Framers of our Constitution?
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Jim DeMint
Republican · South Carolina
Source
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Editor's note · Context

DeMint questions the legitimacy of proxy voting in Congress during the pandemic.

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