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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 19, 2022

Well, look, Anderson, I'm covered by the Hatch Act, I have to be careful what I say about electoral politics here at the White House.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 19, 2022

So I don't think rallies have proved effective for candidates in the midterms. And so we're trying something different that we think will be effective.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 19, 2022

So my focus isn't so much on the polls, but on us continuing to do our job, delivering for the American people, doing things that are at the top of people's agenda, like the President's announcement yesterday to try to bring down the price of gasoline further, by releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, setting a minimum price to rebuild the reserve, those kinds of things are going to really help families with their everyday expenses.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 19, 2022

I think what people need to look at is the choice between what the President -- what congressional Democrats have done are doing, and what Republicans are talking about this season.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 3, 2022

He views them as very responsible efforts to get to the bottom of a real threat to our democracy. So the hearings Congress is holding, I think is part of what should be a national reexamination of whether or not this country is dedicated democracy. But what the threats and challenges to that democracy are.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Sep 13, 2022

The president said on the day the Dobbs decision came down, and rolled back Roe v. Wade, he said, this is going to go one of two ways. Either there would be a pro-choice majority in the House and Senate, and we would enshrine Roe versus Wade into the law of the land once again or there will be an antichoice majority in the House and Senate.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

That difference just I guess I said before it just couldn’t be a wider difference.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

But we -- what we are clearly seeing on the campaign trail are MAGA Republicans engaging in the big lie, refusing to accept the outcome of elections, threatening to overturn the will of the voters in subsequent elections.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

The fact that we’ve got the unemployment rate down to 3.5 percent, which matches the lost in years.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

Voters have to see the clear difference between the two political parties.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

We’re doing our jobs. We’re going to let the Justice Department do its job.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

He and the Democrats are fighting for standing up to special interests, saving our democracy, bringing down costs, protecting a woman’s right to choose, getting guns off our streets.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

You heard the president talk about abortion tonight.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

The contrast, the gap between what Joe Biden and the Democrats are fighting for, what Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are fighting for, that gap just couldn’t be wider.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

Look, what Tim Ryan and Joe Biden share in common is a dedication to making sure that every person in this country, whether they went to college or not, has a chance for a better life.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 25, 2022

Ultimately, the way we’re going to protect a woman’s right to choose is to pass a federal law to enshrine Roe v. Wade into the law of the land.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 18, 2022

We now have a presidency where the president has delivered the largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt, the largest infrastructure plan since Eisenhower, the most judges confirmed since Kennedy, the second largest health care bill since Johnson, and the largest climate change bill in history.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Aug 9, 2022

We can combat this existential threat by putting forward a plan to create clean energy jobs in America, a plan to move this country to a clean energy future.

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