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Paul Begala

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Paul Begala is a prominent American political consultant, strategist, and television personality, best known for his role as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been influential in shaping political discourse and strategy in the United States. Begala has also made a name for himself as a commentator on various news networks, where he provides insights on political issues and campaigns.

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Oct 2, 2016

She opposed the Bush tax cuts. Which rolled back her husband had this radical idea that the rich should pay more and the poor should pay less.

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Sep 25, 2016

Feelings matter but facts matter, too. Donald Trump comes into the campaign doing better in the polls but look at the following headlines and 'New York Times' has a week of whoppers from Donald Trump.

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Sep 25, 2016

Hillary has now lived the American dream so that her granddaughter is perhaps the most privileged child in the world.

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Sep 25, 2016

He needs to not merely be reasonable, he needs to be credible about the problems that voters are facing, and I think that's a bar he can't possibly reach.

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Sep 25, 2016

What are you going to do for me? Not how are you going to entertain me or how are you going to offend my neighbor who I never liked anyway?

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Sep 24, 2016

She needs to show a sense of mission, not ambition, right? That she is in this for the middle-class, and here's why.

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Sep 24, 2016

Hillary has 112,000 words of policy that she has published. Mr. Trump has about 3,000 according to journalistic count.

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Sep 24, 2016

Trump doesn't need debate prep, Tony. He needs Xanax. He needs horse tranquilizer and they'll give him that.

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Sep 14, 2016

Latinos are going to vote in this election. They're likely to be a determining factor.

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Sep 14, 2016

To say that somehow Hillary has been bad on Latino issues, as A.J. just did, to suggest, I think, that Latino voters are not able to see their own self-interests.

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Sep 14, 2016

Any time you can puncture a person's argument by pointing to hypocrisy, it's a very good thing.

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Aug 24, 2016

It's incoherent. This is 75 days before the presidential election. Facts aren't changing. This is an important issue and we've been debating it at least for years in America.

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Aug 24, 2016

I think that they set up very strict rules when Hillary became secretary of state, right?

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Aug 22, 2016

This is nuts, this is what he launched his campaign on, I think her race is announce some speech calling Mexicans immigrants rapists and murders, some are good people he said.

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Aug 22, 2016

But this has been the heart of his campaign. Now he thinks, 76 days in the election, he's going to change. Have the facts changed? Well no, of course not. The politics have.

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Aug 22, 2016

No, this is about Donald Trump being remarkably consistent. He's a con man.

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Aug 22, 2016

I don't believe he's stupid enough to think that he's going to get African-American votes. He's a smart man. He's trying to reassure and reach out to moderate whites to say I'm not a racist.

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Aug 15, 2016

You know, Mrs. Obama said, it said, character is revealed in a presidential campaign more than it's tested.

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Aug 15, 2016

This says a lot more about Donald Trump and the conspiracy theorists than it says about Hillary.

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Aug 15, 2016

Yes, it's done real damage. It has. I'd say, when the story broke, I -- to quote George W. Bush, I misunderestimated the damage that this would do.

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Aug 15, 2016

There's this myth that somehow Trump is off message when he says this divisive hateful incendiary things, he needs to get back on message, that is the Trump message.

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Aug 15, 2016

In my party, there's no chance to win without it. None, because the coalition President Obama put together that Hillary is trying to inherit is built on young people, people of color and unmarried women.

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