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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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Feb 18, 2021

Senator Cruz has an ideology that says government would screw up a two-car parade. Government can't do anything.

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Jan 28, 2021

The moral thing to do is to clean up your Party, and to purge the lunatics, as the Democrats did with the Klan.

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Jan 28, 2021

It's a tragedy for the country. We need a strong, normal mainstream Republican Party.

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Dec 28, 2020

Mitch McConnell cannon will kill that money he will, as long as he's Majority Leader.

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Dec 28, 2020

These are people who sent $2.3 trillion to corporate America while corporate America was experiencing record profits. So this is all about whose side you're on and it's a very simple message for the Democrats to take to the people of…

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Dec 28, 2020

I think it's terrible position McConnell has put his senators in.

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Dec 28, 2020

Any senator who votes from McConnell's poison pill is voting to kill the $2,000 payment.

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Dec 27, 2020

Mr. Trump and his appointees at the Defense Department to be putting up roadblocks to President-elect Biden being able to protect our country is really, really unconscionable.

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Dec 17, 2020

I talked to two different Hill offices today on the Democratic side involved in these negotiations. I have to tell you, presidents named everyone came up David, they didn't even thinking about him. He's so AWOL right now.

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Dec 17, 2020

It is just outrageous. John. I will say months ago, on May 15th, Nancy Pelosi his Democratic House passed the Heroes Act $3.4 trillion worth of funding for these very people.

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Dec 9, 2020

You're going to tell 20 million Americans that they're not allowed to participate in picking their President because Texas doesn't like it.

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Dec 9, 2020

The Trump candidacy is over. And for them to continue to do this... I think it's really destructive of our democracy.

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Dec 3, 2020

The only way you're going to get COVID aid is if the Democrats win because the Republicans have killed it. They're killing unemployment compensation, small business aid, student loan aid.

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Nov 24, 2020

It's all about motivating your pace. And the Democrats usually do a very bad job in runoffs especially in Georgia of motivating two constituencies in their base, young people and African-Americans.

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Oct 29, 2020

If you rebuild that blue wall, much as I want. Texas, by the way, I think Georgia is going to flip more likely than even Texas.

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Oct 29, 2020

Hispanics in Texas are trending much more Democratic than they were in the Bush era. This is not George W. Bush's Texas.

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Sep 19, 2020

Mitch McConnell's base is not all those wonderful people who vote for him, it's the financial people who are flooding his party with dark money.

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Sep 17, 2020

For the first time, in my experience, where Democrats cared more about the court than Republicans.

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Sep 17, 2020

There will be a movement, Jeffrey, to put four, four on the court.

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Sep 17, 2020

This would do lasting damage - putting someone on the court in the last months of a Trump presidency, would do lasting damage to the legitimacy of the court.

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Jan 21, 2020

Ninety thousand pages we produced, 90,000. Mr. Trump and his White House produced zero.

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