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Campaign Manager and White House Senior Adviser for Barack Obama. Strategist, analyst and occasional author.

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David Plouffe
4 years
1) Prime time hearings, now. 2) Subpoenas to Trump WH and camp officials. This is a RICO case 3) Visit local post offices with cameras - show people what is happening. 4) Events with those getting Rx late 5) Involve governors 5) No rest, no vacation. Go to war for our country.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Arizona done. Recounts don’t erase 14K vote leads. So Georgia will be too. 306 EV, most Presidential votes ever and 5-6 pt national vote lead when all is said and done. Well done @JoeBiden , @KamalaHarris and @jomalleydillon .
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3 years
He will live out his remaining days tormented by his failure, trying to stave off prison and financial ruin and fomenting on Newsmax and OAN. Every year that goes by he will be a more disgraced figure. A cold, fraught and miserable post Presidency. Happy Saturday thought!
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2 years
The messaging needs to be clear, consistent and true. “Congress can override what the Supreme Court did and pass a law to legalize abortion. To do that, we need to elect 2 more Democratic Senators and to hold the House. Pres Biden will sign a law codifying Roe if that happens.”
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He’s one of the worst people on the planet in the world’s most powerful position at one of our most challenging times. He simply has to be beaten. And badly. So badly the Senate goes blue too.
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David Plouffe
4 years
Rarely has our country needed four Senators of principle more than we do at this hour.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Tonight will be the last time you go to sleep and Donald Trump will be President for the next full day. The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
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David Plouffe
4 years
When your Uncle Rudy and Aunt Nikki post bullshit about vote by mail, remind them the only 3 known cases of voter fraud in FL were committed by Donald Trump, Kayleigh McEnany and Derek Chauvin.
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3 years
You don’t “move on” after an insurrection and attempted coup organized by a sitting U.S. President and incited by top political leaders in his party. It must be front and center today, tomorrow, next month, next year and for many to come.
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There has never been a whinier seditionist than Josh Hawley.
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David Plouffe
4 years
We would have kicked your corrupt, fat ass six ways to Sunday.
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Donald J. Trump
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We beat Obama 4 years ago, he worked harder than Crooked Hillary, and we’ll do it again!
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4 years
On D-Day, it was the soldiers who ran straight at the Nazis. On 9/11, the firefighters who ran straight into the WTC towers. Now, it’s the doctors and nurses, all around the world, running straight to danger as the rest of the world isolates from it. They are the best of us.
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It’d be one thing if he was a terrible person yet ruthlessly competent. But he may be the worst person ever to be President AND the worst at the job. 11/03/20.
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3 years
Biden’s lead is now currently bigger than Trump’s final 2016 margin in both MI and WI and is projected to grow. Estimates are his PA lead will be bigger as well. If smaller margins were good enough for Trump to collapse the Blue Wall, larger ones certainly OK to rebuild it.
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4 years
Arizona. Florida. Michigan. North Carolina. Pennsylvania. Wisconsin. Some combo of these states can free us from the route to autocracy we are on. Others can be won. But won’t be the tipping point. Those of you from the six above - the world needs you. And will owe you a debt.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Really tired of dumbfucks in power. And extra tired of people who aren’t actual dumbfucks acting like one to appease those who are.
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David Plouffe
4 years
Our current President is calling for his predecessor and his current challenger to be jailed. In America. The story - the only story - out of his sideshow bullshit is this. The entire enterprise is on the line. It’s not clever political tactics - it’s unprecedented and sick.
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1) Biden is ahead in enough places to win the Presidency. 2) Trump wants to count all the votes in those states to see if he can catch up. 3) In GA and PA, where he is currently ahead, he wants to stop counting. 4) Donald Trump only wants to count Donald Trump votes.
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3 years
The argument that preserving the filibuster is necessary because it’s an important tool in our Democracy falls apart when it’s clearer with every passing day we won’t have a Democracy without Congress passing voting rights legislation.
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David Plouffe
2 years
Glad Joe Biden is President tonight.
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David Plouffe
3 years
A third of the country is holding the other two-thirds hostage. Preventing us from beating the pandemic. From reaffirming we are a Democracy. From ending the carnage from guns. From accepting there are no alternative truths or facts. We need the 2/3 to unite. Not forever. But now
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3 years
Still five more days to reveal the health care plan.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Too many of the jurors are accomplices.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Democracy dying so the filibuster can live would seem a terrible way for this experiment to end.
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David Plouffe
3 years
They are now the Trump Eleven. They think that’s a badge of honor now. But it will be a shameful epitaph for them all.
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David Plouffe
4 years
One cent a barrel oil. Trump gets played by the Saudis and Russians. Just like China. The job losses will be massive. Turns out having a dumb narcissist as President could not be more dangerous to America.
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3 years
The battle to save our country is not Democrats vs Republicans. It is pro-democracy forces vs. pro-autocracy forces. It won’t go away on Jan. 20. It won’t be won easily and it will take a big tent to include all those who disagree on a bunch of things but agree on the big thing.
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4 years
Surrendering to COVID but fighting for the Confederate flag is a strange strategy for political resuscitation.
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David Plouffe
3 years
A core tenet of Republican legislative and messaging strategy is that Democrats will blink. There can be no blinking when it comes to saving our Democracy. McConnell’s threats should not only be ignored but evidence to go all the way in this noble cause.
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David Plouffe
4 years
Just because they are white, does not make them militias. They are not supplementing our armed forces in an emergency. They are domestic terrorists.
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David Plouffe
4 years
Call me a traditionalist, but it is illegal, unethical and grossly repugnant how he is staining the White House right now.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Wish it weren’t so, but 11/08/22 is going to be as important as 11/03/20 was. Time to make a plan for what you can do. The threat this time to the country is from within. But it is a profound one.
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4 years
Senate GOP now has zero leverage in negotiation. And by extension neither does Trump. Can’t have millionaire members engaged in insider trading and withstand being accused of stiffing cooks, store clerks and hotel cleaning staff. Pass what you want Dems. They’ll have no choice.
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4 years
I still maintain when all is said and done he’ll wish he never ran.
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David Plouffe
4 years
Still hard to believe this gang of grifters and criminals are under the same roof as Lincoln, FDR, Reagan and Obama. Every night I left the White House, I looked back at the building, in awe of all those who came before. Years from now, no one will do the same for this awful crew
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David Plouffe
3 years
This feels even better than I thought it would.
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David Plouffe
4 years
We’ve never needed Democrats in Congress more than we do now. The whole enterprise is on the line. The Biden campaign has no oversight or fiscal power. Neither does the press. Letters, statements, outrage are not enough. Time to go to the mattresses. Now.
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You don’t move on from the U.S. Capitol falling, insurrection, an attempted coup, murder, planned assassinations or voting to throw out millions of black votes. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
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3 years
I hereby declare you a one term President.
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3 years
It’d be a shame if the filibuster lives and our Democracy dies.
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David Plouffe
3 years
It won’t be too long before Trump is asking for donations to pay off the Deutsche Bank loan.
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David Plouffe
4 years
From farms in Iowa to diners in New Hampshire to auto plants in Ohio and for 8 years in the White House, @BarackObama said consistently he would be a leader who told you not what you wanted to hear, but what you needed to. If tonight's message alarmed you, that was the point.
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2 years
The palpable fear from the organizers and abetters of the Jan 6 insurrection about their texts and other communication being revealed is growing. Lawyer up, treasonous ones.
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3 years
The history will be a President who thoroughly conceded to a virus that could have been defeated and who refused to concede when he was thoroughly defeated. Aided by innumerable collaborators who betrayed the country and the people they swore to serve and protect.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Nooses outside the Capitol and confederate flags waving inside. January 6, 2021.
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David Plouffe
4 years
Trump should have stayed at the White House pretending to do his job this week, instead of roaming the country like a washed up vaudeville performer.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Just get fucking vaccinated. So we can move on to debating whether we remain a democracy or not.
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David Plouffe
3 years
To everyone who made calls, sent texts and postcards, contributed money, shared and created content, did GOTV canvassing and lived part of your life on behalf of this noble cause - thank you and congratulations.
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If Coney Barrett’s confirmation and Kavanaugh’s Trumpian writing in the WI case don’t scare you, nothing will. Our Democracy is hanging by a thread. I believe the voters committed to protecting it will be stronger in this election than those who would see it wither. We must win.
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David Plouffe
3 years
It’s conceivable that Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are both serious GOP Presidential contenders in 2024. And that tells you about all you need to know about where we are today.
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David Plouffe
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Make them pay.
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David Plouffe
4 years
House Democrats should hold hearings on the USPS and Trump’s blatant attempt to kneecap the election and hold onto power illegally from 6-9 PM EST the last two nights of the GOP convention, Aug 26 and 27. Give them the lead-in they deserve.
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The more we learn about the horrors in Trump’s White House the more grateful we should be every day for all those who dedicated so much time to ensuring his defeat and electing Joe Biden our President.
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Donald Trump was correct about one thing. He was rightly concerned that Joe Biden could defeat him.
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Fitting way for the clusterfuck to end, with the My Pillow Guy pitching martial law schemes. Next Friday, we can all just have a Friday. What a relief.
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David Plouffe
4 years
The cure to the problem is 270 Electoral Votes on November 3, 2020.
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David Plouffe
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270 on 11/03/20 was always the only real route to making this a 4 and not 8 year nightmare. He’s not resigning, he’s not getting impeached and the popular vote is not getting established. With a strong nominee and millions of committed volunteers working hard, we can do it.
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They talk tough. But in reality, they seem to be afraid of everything. Books. Votes. Trans-athletes. Masks. Women making their own health care decisions. The truth. The other. Yes, it’s mean. And power hungry. And nihilistic. But it’s weak and fearful at it’s core.
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Where are the tests? Where are the masks? Where are the ventilators? Where are the beds? Where are the ships? Where is the truth? Where is the taking responsibility? Where is the leadership? When is the election? 11/03/20!
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190,000 lives cut short > hair cut.
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Trump's attacks on mail-in voting, inserting his grifting crony to gut the USPS, and his open threats to starve it are not political tactics. They are deliberate and quite open attempts by an autocrat to hold onto power illegally. It is all on the line.
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We are now in the everyone steals and monetizes secret nuclear documents phase of Defend the Indefensible.
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David Plouffe
3 years
Trump’s legal team now has more confirmed COVID cases than legal cases they’ve won in court. Sad, pathetic, dangerous.
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4 years
A stirring spot. I’ve been on the other end of some tough attacks from the crew at the @ProjectLincoln . Much prefer this!
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David Plouffe
3 years
Zero chance just became sub zero.
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Amy Gardner
3 years
Just in: Pennsylvania Secretary of State reports just 10k ballots came in between Nov. 3 and Nov. 6. Biden wins Pennsylvania without those votes.
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“I take no responsibility at all” on testing disaster and “I know nothing about it” on disbanding WH pandemic team. This could be even worse than the worst Oval Office address in Presidential history.
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Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley will never lead the country but they will go down in infamy for leading, instigating and enabling domestic terrorists.
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If we vote in large enough numbers, there will be a transfer of power all right. He’ll go petulantly screaming and rage tweeting, but go he will, permanently to Mar-A-Lago, where he will live out his dwindling days a disgraced and angry QAnon disciple. Make it so.
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Not a whisper. Obama team fully vetted Biden in 2008 and found no hint of former aide's allegation (opinion) - CNN
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David Plouffe
5 years
Still elected with Putin’s help, not cleared on obstruction, lied about Moscow dealings, paid election eve hush $$ to a porn star. Oh, and trying to eliminate pre-x conditions, trade war killing farmers, tax cuts for rich, accelerating destruction of planet. Plenty to work with.
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COVID-19 may have originated in China. The deadly pathogen found it’s perfect host in Donald J Trump.
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3 years
In a sane and logical world we’d make it harder to kill American citizens with guns and make it easier for American citizens to register to vote. Not the world we are living in.
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4 years
Call me dated, but I recall from a campaign or two that voters vastly prefer Presidents who quietly and competently help governors and states during crisis, not malign them and try to incite new ones.
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A lot of political chatter about whether Trump’s attacks on Biden told from the White House will work. Let’s see more focus on the fact that they were lies told from a criminal stage. We’ve never seen anything like it. Normalizing it could end our Democracy.
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The amazing thing is, not only do you get to keep eating beef, buying Dr Suess and driving cars, you get vaccines, jobs, health care assistance and maybe a few roads, bridges and billionaire tax increases in the deal for good measure.
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Most in the GOP giving the green light for a future coup attempt. At some point this year we may be able to stop wearing masks. But the vigilance required to save our Democracy will take decades.
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When you see a dumb post from your Uncle Rudy or Aunt Kayleigh about PA, tell them Biden’s lead is 70K, a full 1% (he’ll end up winning PA by more than Trump won MI/PA/WI by) and Trump did better in Philly in ‘20 than ‘16. And Biden doesn’t need PA. But it’s nice to have 306.
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When you wake up tomorrow, you won’t have to dread looking at your phone. And what a gift that will be.
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The fight to save our Democracy is just beginning. It’s a scary thought. But if this cast of seditionists gains control of the Senate, House and the White House anytime this decade it’s lights out for America. They are all must-win elections.
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It gets even better. Tomorrow, Trump’s ultimate humiliation starting at 1 PM EST, after he and his Confederacy of Dunces lost the U.S. Senate tonight.
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Assume he could win again despite it all and act accordingly.
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It’s horribly offensive. But Trump WANTS a debate over what the virus should be called NOT to be called to account for closing the pandemic office, minimizing the health & economic threat, losing weeks of preparation time and the scandal of far too little tests and equipment.
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You think this is a guy (or narcissistic sociopath if you prefer) who will accept election results he doesn’t like when he goes to the mattresses on Alabama?
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4 years
I’d be careful about maligning anyone who is not currently with you as part of a corrupt establishment. You’ll need some of them to be the nominee and all of them to win the Presidency.
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A COVID-19 clusterfuck in the Rose Garden. So sad, so fitting, so infuriating. They are dumb, cynical and dangerous. And may their kind never return to the White House.
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My days running Presidential campaigns are behind me, but my sense would be "I got COVID, I finally get it, Biden hasn't gotten it, now I'll take it seriously" is the worst closing argument in the history of closing arguments.
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Ron Klain. Most excellent.
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David Plouffe
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Bill Barr makes J. Edgar Hoover look like a civil rights hero.
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You think these DHS agents won’t be ordered by Trump to deploy to polling locations, early voting centers and perhaps even county election offices where vote by mail ballots are being counted?
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4 years
Given what is awaiting him when he departs, he views the White House as a safe house. Not for much longer, pal. Not for much longer.
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The House Democrats need to haul the GSA administrator before an emergency hearing tomorrow.
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Managing a crisis. Not creating them.
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Just imagine what they would be doing if they had won.
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Dark hour for our democracy. You’d think it would be worth protecting. But the treasonous enablers and cowards would rather bend the knee to Trump than defend it. The election will stand. But if this is the new normal our country will fall.
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3 years
Elections matter.
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4 years
It didn’t have to be this way. It doesn’t have to be this way. We have many problems. An American President should seek to solve them, not create new ones and inflame existing ones. It literally is all on the line November 3. Eight years of this? We’ll be unrecognizable.
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One is spending the day trying to clean up his felonious suggestion people vote twice while his Attorney General professes ignorance of the law. The other will be in Kenosha today, providing the selfless leadership and constructive voice we have sorely missed for almost 4 years.
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Trump could not be clearer. Straight from the Presidential podium, if you are a (white) supporter of his with an automatic weapon, he will defend you even if you murder in cold blood.
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A speech he was desperately forced to give, yet still filled with lies, has zero relevance on the clear and present danger he represents. He must be removed. And Josh Hawley can pick fights with publishers and Ted Cruz with @AOC , but we will never move on from what you did.
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The delta between what Trump and his gang of grifters said would happen if Joe Biden was elected and what has actually happened may be the widest in American presidential campaign history.
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