“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 recordJanuary 14, 2009
About 55 percent of the American people in polls said that they did not support us staying in Afghanistan.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Editor's note · Context

Graham references public opinion against continued military presence in Afghanistan.

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