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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Nov 12, 2020

The candidate for President Joe Biden promised they would put up the official in charge of the COVID response in the White House. He will do that. That official have a team of people that he works with someone coordinating he or she works with someone coordinating vaccine, vaccine distribution, someone coordinating fixing the supply chain problems we're having, someone coordinating fixing the testing problems we're having. We're going to start from day one really moving to get this virus under control.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Nov 11, 2020

We are in a mess here. The administration dropped the ball here.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Nov 11, 2020

President Obama put science first. He listened to Dr. Fauci. The Trump administration took apart the structure we put in place to prepare for this.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Nov 1, 2020

Our point is that people have the right to vote. We're going to defend that right. Voters have the final say, not the courts, the voters.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Nov 1, 2020

I think, as President Obama said, if voters come out in sufficient numbers tomorrow, and we can win these key states by sufficient margins, I don't think Donald Trump will have any basis to fight this thing on.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 27, 2020

There's only one answer. If you're out there listening tonight... We all have one tool that can prevent Brett Kavanaugh from impacting this election. That's for people to go out and vote.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 27, 2020

Of course, Vice President Biden has a team of some of the best lawyers in the country ready to go to court, if needed, to establish that a win, if he achieves it, is a legitimate win.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 27, 2020

And it shouldn't come to that not because Democrats have some special burden to win by more votes, but because Donald Trump is a horrible president, and Democrats and everyone else, Independents and Republicans should show up at the polls and make a clear statement that the era of Trump is over and it's time to get this country back on track.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 26, 2020

It's the equivalent of 1944 and Franklin Roosevelt running for re-election saying we're not going to win World War II.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 26, 2020

He called for a universal, nationwide masking mandate in August. I'm pleased this weekend Dr. Fauci endorsed it. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former of the Trump administration, endorsed what Joe Biden called for back in August.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 26, 2020

COVID is top of the mind. He addressed it today in a clip you showed at the top of the show.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 8, 2020

the president and the vice president who's in charge of this task force doesn't have a plan to keep other people from getting sick.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 8, 2020

If Mitch McConnell says it is unsafe to be around the president and his people why should anyone be around the president and his people?

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 8, 2020

It is not up to Donald Trump to decide who won the election. It's not up Mike Pence to decide who won the election.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 8, 2020

Oh sure. I'm good with that. Look, I mean the problem here is that the White House hasn't been straight and they haven't been careful. And that is a dangerous combination when you put the two together.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Oct 8, 2020

The only way to have a safe election in 2020 is to have an overwhelming result in 2020.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· Sep 13, 2020

Well, no, Joy. First of all, it's a complicated comparison because Ebola spreads in a different way and there are different ways to contain it, so it's not only apple to apples comparison. But what I will say is, here, as you noted, what's really interesting is, President Trump takes great efforts to keep himself safe.

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

The fact that he's turned a blind eye to the impacts of COVID on African-Americans right now in this country.

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