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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Sep 9, 2020

Yes. I mean obviously there is sadly a family history of racism in the Trump world.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 21, 2020

Joe Biden issued warnings about this in January. Well, few others were speaking about it. He issued warnings about it in February. He laid out a comprehensive plan in March months ago, and has updated it periodically during the campaign.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 21, 2020

We lost over 1,000. So there's, there's no reason why it should be different here than there, and yet, it's vastly different.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 21, 2020

We can't get numb to that loss. I thought the vice president was quite articulate and powerful on that point last night.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 14, 2020

Donald Trump has proven that he cannot manage a pandemic, now he can't even manage the mail.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· May 24, 2020

The idea that his embarrassment is the reason that the nation doesn't hear as much, on a daily basis, from important scientists is stunning to me.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· May 24, 2020

It is stunning, Anderson. I think it also goes back to something Kaitlan mentioned a minute ago, which is that as the White House has departed farther and farther from science...

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· May 24, 2020

People weren't going to believe that when they hear that from the scientists. The more the President muzzles the scientists, the more people feel that they aren't being told the truth...

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 16, 2020

God bless, you know, grocery store employees, and delivery people, whether it's delivering food, or FedEx or, you know, packages, UPS, I mean it is people who do not have, you know, have to put food on the table, and have to go out, and expose themselves for their own family and for, you know, to basically keep all of us connected.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 16, 2020

The President can encourage crowds. He can rile people up. But if states are going to reopen without testing, they're reopening blind.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 16, 2020

But what the President is basically saying is, you know, we're - you know, basically, we're going to go forward this way without really knowing what we're sending people into.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 16, 2020

The President of the United States has the authority, under the Defense Production Act, to order the manufacture of these things.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Apr 16, 2020

The second division we're going to see now is this division we're seeing between Red states and Blue states, the beaches at Jacksonville being open and, you know, different behaviors, different choices by governors, not based on different circumstances, but on different political philosophies.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Mar 24, 2020

The best way to get our economy back to work is to beat this disease.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Mar 24, 2020

This is not a negotiation about good to have, nice to have. If someone needs a ventilator, they need it right now.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Mar 24, 2020

I think the problem is that we need President Trump to do his job so all of us can go do ours.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Mar 9, 2020

Congress deserves great credit for acting with unprecedented speed in funding this response.

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