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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 28, 2025

The president said a couple of times in the past couple of days that he really wants this process to be driven by the local authorities here, whether it's the state government or the local mayors.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 28, 2025

Yes, things can always happen, yes, terrible tragedies happen, but I feel very confident the President of the United States is in good shape, is going to serve out the remainder of his term and do great things for the American people.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Aug 25, 2025

Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him.

usatoday.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 22, 2025

If we think Ambassador Bolton committed a crime, of course eventually prosecutions will come.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Aug 22, 2025

Over the next few months, I will travel our country to share behind-the-scenes moments, lessons learned, and how we keep moving forward together. I’ll see you out there.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Aug 22, 2025

107 Days is my candid and personal account of the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 21, 2025

It’s not reasonable to have 'crazy people yelling at our kids.'

nypost.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 21, 2025

It wasn’t 'compassionate' to 'allow a person who’s schizophrenic… to fester in the streets.'

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 21, 2025

We do not have to allow our cities to be taken over by violence. We can bring law and order to our communities, you’ve just got to have the political willpower to do it.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 21, 2025

President Trump’s administration is cleaning up DC and making America safe again.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

Let's free D.C. from lawlessness. Let's free Washington, D.C., from one of the highest murder rates in the entire world. Let's free Washington, D.C., so that young families can walk around and feel safe and secure.

theblaze.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

This should be a monument to American greatness. This should not be a place where parents of small children are afraid to bring them ... because we have empowered criminals over the people who actually need public safety in this city.

theblaze.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

You have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless, you have the mentally ill who harass, who threaten violence, who attack families, and they've done it for far too long.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

We’re gonna come and say thank you to the National Guard folks, to the cops for actually keeping this place safe. If you look at what’s happened in Washington, DC, in just the past nine days, we’ve seen a 35 percent reduction in violent…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

The fact that it’s taken so long to bring common decency and law and order back to Washington, DC, is an indictment of a generation of failed leadership, and I hope these guys know how grateful we are that they’re doing the job that so…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

I really can’t overemphasize this enough. It’s the greatest country in the world. We’ve got moms and dads and young families; shouldn’t they be able to enjoy public spaces without vagrants taking away basic public safety from the American…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

I think the president campaigned on being a president of peace. He’s already ended six wars; he’s trying to end another. I think it’s kind of disgraceful that the American media is attacking the president for trying to bring peace to the…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

It actually should make every American ashamed that the world’s leading superpower, our national capital, was unsafe for families to walk around at night.

nypost.com
Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Aug 17, 2025

I’m also going to be praying that it’s a productive time and a unifying time among all the leaders in the West and the president and President Zelensky.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Aug 17, 2025

[Trump] ought to pick up the phone and ask Majority Leader John Thune to immediately pass the secondary sanctions bill that is supported by virtually everyone in the United States Senate.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Aug 17, 2025

I served alongside the president for four years. I know his style in dealing with these dictators. It’s the velvet glove, but I think the hammer needs to come, and it needs to come immediately.

nypost.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 11, 2025

My political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi.

reason.com
JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 11, 2025

We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires, and now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this.

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