Howard Dean

It`s not just bad medically, it`s not just bad ethically, it`s dumb politically.

What he doesn’t realize is that COVID sank Donald Trump’s presidency and it’s going to sink DeSantis because the people of Florida -- I don’t think DeSantis could carry Florida if he ran for president right now.

I’d give him an F. You know, you’d like to call him a crack pot. No, he’s not. Rand Paul is a crack pot because he believes crazy things. DeSantis doesn’t even believe what he’s talking about. He’s totally unfit to govern in any way and…

If this puts me in the same company as Obama and Biden, I am delighted. I tried to get into that company, but the voters didn’t have it.

So underneath the victory lap at economics, and we are doing better, and the Republicans were terrible in Florida and Texas and places like that, and their governors are under water, but underneath all that is a real threat to our…

First of all, I actually think most of the Republican senators are for it. They just don’t dare vote for it because they don’t want to give Biden the victory.

We owe it, we in politics owe it to protect the people who elected us and who pay our salaries.

Science is science, and the facts are the facts.

I`m joined now by a medical doctor who understands the intersection of policy-making and medicine, of course, the governor of Vermont, the former DNC chair, presidential candidate.

These Republicans are nuts. They`re not all nuts. And that`s why The Lincoln Project is doing so well, is because they appeal to real conservatives who actually care about the party.

They have nothing to say. And when you have nothing to say that`s good for the country, you resort to the worst possible tactics.

It`s pretty frightening, really. I mean, the CPAC people have gotten more and more sort of off the charts. And Trump has always been a little nuts. But the thing that is so ironic about this is that the people they`re killing in Missouri…

And the party, the Republican Party, would rather have power than do the right thing for America. And I think that`s a major problem.

These guys are not interested in serving the country. This is like Jim Jones in Guyana. It really is.

The Republican stand for nothing, except for stopping Joe Biden from being president.

Georgia has essentially reinstituted Jim Crow.

These are people who might have often voted Republican, but this Republican Party is essentially treacherous. They do not value the United States of America as it is now. They want to run an autocracy.

The Democrats have never been tough enough with the Republicans. And I think Biden`s actually playing this quite well, because the Americans -- the reason Raphael Warnock is in the Senate Jon Ossoff is in the Senate is because the Georgia…

I think Manchin will be reelected. He -- Manchin is in the most Republican state in the country right now. And I think his people like that. I think Sinema will lose in a primary and will be not heard from again, if this continues.

The Republican Party’s loyalty is to themselves, not to the country. And that’s what’s so discouraging about this.

These people are not conservatives. They’re neo-fascists.

The reason they are abandoning democracy is because they have no choice. They can’t win in a democracy.

Democracy dies because you no longer care about democracy. The Republicans have no commitment to democracy at this point.

I thank Chairman Pallone for his support on this bill, and I urge all members to support its passage.

This is a referendum on Joe Biden in the midterms. And so far, he`s going to win that referendum.