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"You know, one of the things that continues to bother us in the way in which the moderators don’t even bring up an issue that, before COVID-19, was impacting 43% of this nation. A hundred forty million people, before COVID, were poor and low-wealth, and 62 million people working for less than a living wage. And since COVID, we know that millions have been added to the poverty and low-wealth numbers. We’re well over 50% because of the new poor. We know we had 87 million people before COVID that were either uninsured or underinsured, and now some 20 million people have been added because of people who have lost their insurance because they’ve lost their jobs. Forty percent of the jobs that make $40,000 a year have been lost."
"North Carolina was the scene of the crime of the worst voter suppression, after the case out of Alabama and when the Supreme Court gutted Section 5. And Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that it’s like putting away your umbrella — the Shelby case, it was — putting away your umbrella in a rainstorm. And in North Carolina, Amy, when it was done, the Republicans there said, "Now that the problem has — the headache has been removed, we can do what we want to." And guess what. Everything Pence just said, we heard in 2013. And they tried to roll back every progressive way of voting. And they actually went to the books and looked at how did it benefit Black and Brown people and young people, and those were the rules they tried to roll back. And the court said it was surgical — surgical racism. And what I saw in North Carolina, what we defeated in North Carolina, what we filed suit against in North Carolina, is now what Trump and Pence are talking about doing on the national level: surgical racism with surgical precision."
"We’re telling people, vote by absentee ballot. In North Carolina, where we have 16 days of early voting, vote early. And if you vote on Election Day, then put your shield on, put your mask on, put your gloves on. Pack you a lunch. Get you a folding chair. Put some water in that lunch bag and vote. And if they want to come watch us vote, let them watch millions of people, because we’re not scared. We’re not giving away this democracy. Let them come and watch. And then stop saying Trump won the last time. He was elected by the Electoral College because of 80,000 votes."
"While we can't guarantee that candidates will stick to their campaign promises, we still must ask this vital question: What prospects for peace might each of them bring to the White House? In 1989, at the end of the Cold War, former Pentagon officials Robert McNamara and told the Senate Budget Committee that the could safely be cut by 50% over the next 10 years... Presidential campaigns are key moments for raising these issues. We are greatly encouraged by Tulsi Gabbard's courageous decision to place solving the crisis of war and militarism at the heart of her presidential campaign. We thank Bernie Sanders for voting against the obscenely bloated military budget year after year, and for identifying the military-industrial complex as one of the most powerful interest groups that his political revolution must confront. We applaud Elizabeth Warren for condemning "the stranglehold of defense contractors on our military policy." And we welcome Marianne Williamson, Andrew Yang and other original voices to this debate."
"We need to hear a much more vigorous debate about war and peace in this campaign, with more specific plans from all the candidates. This vicious cycle of U.S. wars, militarism and runaway military spending drains our resources, corrupts our national priorities and undermines international cooperation, including on the existential dangers of climate change and nuclear weapons proliferation, which no country can solve on its own... We are calling for this debate most of all because we mourn the millions of people being killed by our country's wars and we want the killing to stop. If you have other priorities, we understand and respect that. But unless and until we address militarism and all the money it sucks out of our national coffers, it may well prove impossible to solve the other very serious problems facing the United States and the world in the 21st century."
"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6—brutally attacking law enforcement—not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots. And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they're determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people. That's why respected conservatives, like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a "clear and present danger" to our democracy."
"Trump spoke with Xi Jinping by phone on June 18, ahead of 2019's Osaka G20 summit, when they would next meet. Trump began by telling Xi he missed him and then said that the most popular thing he had ever been involved with was making a trade deal with China, which would be a big plus politically. They agreed their economic teams could continue meeting. The G20 bilateral arrived, and during the usual media mayhem at the start, Trump said, "we've become friends. My trip to Beijing with my family was one of the most incredible of my life." With the press gone, Xi said this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. He said that some (unnamed) political figures in the United States were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war, this time between China and the United States. Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats, or some of us sitting on the US side of the table, I don't know, but Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats. He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words, but the government's prepublication review process has decided otherwise."
"Rev. William Barber says the 2020 election debates have steadfastly ignored the subject of poverty, even though it affected almost half the United States population before the COVID-19 pandemic and millions more people are struggling since then."
"During Wednesday’s debate, Vice President Mike Pence refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Biden wins the election. Instead, he referenced the Trump administration’s legal efforts to restrict mail-in voting. Rev. William Barber says the Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts ahead of the November election, aimed primarily at Black and Brown voters, amount to “surgical racism with surgical precision.” The Poor People’s Campaign, of which Barber is co-chair, is leading a major voter mobilization effort to combat voter disenfranchisement. “They know they cannot win if everybody votes. They are terribly afraid of poor and low-wealth Black and Brown people voting,” he says."
"...We live in a society where some people have a great deal of power, and most people have very little. And that this works out well for the few and not so well for the many. This plays out in the political realm with the few using their power to support candidates who would maintain that power. In the past..[news] outlets told us very little about which candidates were beholden to whose interests... ensuring that few people outside the donor class were aware of who was doing the donating. A funny thing happened in the 21st century: The development of digital technologies made it much cheaper to create and distribute information... this ability allows us to have conversations about politics that we’ve always needed and never have had until now... These discussions of candidates’ financial and policy histories can look like negativity—because it’s seldom good news when a line can be drawn between where politicians gets their resources and how they do their jobs. But the possibility of picking nominees based on who can best serve the interests of voters rather than donors is really one of the most positive developments in modern politics."
"The governments that have been negligent from the beginning [...] are afraid of demonstrating their ineptitude in the face of such a health crisis. At the last minute, Trump declared a "national emergency" and agreed with the Democrats in Congress on a special package for and rapid testing. If he appears incompetent in the face of a crisis and thousands of people die, he could lose the U.S. presidency, even to Biden."
"Make America Rake Again, Lawn And Order!"
"We are representing President Trump and the Trump campaign... this pattern of fraud repeats itself in several states.. voter fraud concentrated in big cities controlled by democrats that have a long history of corruption..."
"Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion... For example, we indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected, he — from people who could vote, he made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. OK?"
"Probably the most depressing thought is that Democrats are going to learn all the wrong lessons from this election, because the polls really do show Biden is up in a crushing way now. The reason for that is, very simply, Trump failed miserably on Covid-19, 209,000 Americans are dead as of the recording of this video, and the economy is a mess! So you have a terrible economy and you have over 200,000 deaths from a pandemic, and you have general chaos. So, the election is a referendum on Trump and on those things, and a ham sandwich could beat Trump, but the lesson that the Democrats are going to take away is, 'Oh, Joe Biden is awesome, which means the establishment is awesome, which means the status quo is awesome, which means neoliberal corporatism is awesome, which means business as usual is awesome, which means let's continue with this formula for decades.'"
"Six weeks ago, Americans voted in this year’s general election. The legal and constitutional processes have continued to play out. Yesterday, electors met in all 50 states. So, as of this morning, our country officially has a President-elect and a Vice President-elect. Many millions of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result. But our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January the 20th. The Electoral College has spoken. So today, I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. The President-elect is no stranger to the Senate. He has devoted himself to public service for many years. I also congratulate the Vice President-elect, our colleague from California, Senator Harris. Beyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female Vice President-elect for the first time. I look forward to finishing out the next 36 days strong with President Trump. Our nation needs us to add another bipartisan chapter to this record of achievement."
"There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration"
"American Jews living in Israel say, 'Hey, the guy's OK' — I think it does have some kind of influence on voters, including their relatives in the U.S."
"AZ update: apparently, the use of sharpie pens in GOP precincts is causing ballots to be invalidated. Could be huge numbers of mostly Trump supporters"
"I don’t see campaigning on the list. Anything that does not have to be done in person and anything not related to his job as vice president would not be considered essential... Pence could be putting people at risk"
"[listeners need not fear dying from COVID-19] You know the bottom line, though? You're gonna get better. You're gonna get better. [coronavirus fatalities are] WAY DOWN,[because] Therapeutics working!"
"I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!"
"There is no loss from him [Biden] getting the briefings and to be able to do that and if that's not occurring by Friday I will step in as well, and to be able to push and to say this needs to occur so that regardless of the outcome of the election ... people can be ready for that actual task"
"Well, certainly, here in Georgia, we have upwards of 200 open investigations. We're in the courts right now. We have heard and seen too much. We need to get to the bottom of it."
"Well, these cases haven't been heard. They deserve to be heard. We need to make sure that we get to the bottom of this because the integrity of voting is at the core of our democracy. We have to protect that. We have to have people who are willing to fight for it and defend it, and that's what I'm looking at right now."
"this case was never about fraud—it was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so"
"Having failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the President has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election. It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President."
"The only way he Biden got 80 million votes is through fraud"
"They’re doing recounts. And even in the recount, they found thousands of votes that were off. ..you will find tens of thousands of false ballots, fraud- — forged ballots. You’ll see it all over... I think it was six hundred-and-some-odd thousand — 687,000 fraudulent votes cast in Pennsylvania."
"The number of ballots that our Campaign is challenging in the Pennsylvania case is FAR LARGER than the 81,000 vote margin. It’s not even close. Fraud and illegality ARE a big part of the case. Documents being completed. We will appeal!"
"[Chris Krebs, who said Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was not subject to voter fraud, should be] taken out at dawn and shot"
"It's all gone too far... it has to stop. Mr President you have not condemned this action or this language, Senators, you have not condemned this language or this action. This has to stop. We need you to step up..."
"Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting implementation manager, talking about what Joe DiGenova said according to Georgia election official to Trump: Condemn “potential acts of violence” on youtube Dec 1, 2020"
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election"
"Remember last election? Things got completely unhinged! How 'bout a normal one this time? 'Cause I think coups are kind of cringe!"
"57,734 ballots with serious issues were identified in the audit. These issues include improper voter registration, improper votes, and discrepancies in the registration. This is a conservative estimate, as there were other identified problems that were not quantified nor included in that total, likely resulting in a much larger number of flawed ballots. Additional issues identified: backdated registrations, multiple voter registrations linked to the same voter affidavit, voters without records in a commercial database, and printing defects rendering thousands of ballots as suspicious. There were more than 10,000 double votes across county lines. Tens of thousands of ballots cast from individuals who had moved prior to the election and could not have physically received their ballots, legally."
"All defendants, including Cyber Ninjas, are ordered to carefully secure, protect and preserve from deterioration, mutilation, loss or destruction any and all records in their custody, possession or control that are reasonably necessary or appropriate to maintain an accurate knowledge of their official activities concerning the 2020 Maricopa County election audit, including records of the performance, funding and staffing of said audit,"
"The CEO of a cybersecurity firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to audit the 2020 election results in Maricopa County said Friday he found more than 57,000 problem ballots .. Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, said his team found 57,734 ballots with serious issues, the Gateway Pundit reported. In the official statewide count last November, only 10,457 votes separated Joe Biden from Donald Trump."
"The audit has been referred to the Arizona Attorney General for further action."
"I will take all necessary actions that are supported by the evidence and where I have legal authority. Arizonans deserve to have their votes accurately counted and protected."
"Thirty-four thousand, four hundred and forty-eight total images: of which seventeen-thousand three-hundred and thirty-two ... three hundred and TWENTY two were duplicates, from seventeen-thouand one-hundred and twenty-six unique voters. This by the way, we'll get to it, was not reported in the report."
"Jill Biden will not be remembered kindly in American history"
"Folks, I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to."
"There’s no way whoever is in charge of this presidency didn’t know this man was suffering from serious cognitive challenges. I loathe today’s Democrats, but when they can manage to make me feel sorry for Joseph Biden, they are more than loathsome. They are beyond reproach."
"We finally beat Medicare..[trump]]]"
"They should use the commercial break to swap in the real Democratic nominee. The only time Biden came remotely close to life in the debate is when he’s talking about Trump’s conviction and J6. Turns out he doesn’t give a damn about the things Americans actually care about."
"Hillary Clinton"
"Trump’s strongest moment was when he said he wanted Biden to be a good President so Trump didn’t have to put himself through this. Came across as authentic, credible, honest, unifying. That kind of candor, contrasted with Biden’s apparent lobotomy, won over a lot of independents."
"Did I just"
"Full interview: Vice President Kamala Harris sits down with Bret Baier in 'Special Report' exclusive (October 16, 2024) a Fox video"
"Fox News Shannon Bream interviews Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz (October 13, 2024)"
"Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. And elections? Forget about it. That’s over. That’s done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will never leave."
"What if the weakest president we’ve ever had was re-elected?"
"A new Gallup poll showed that just 33 percent of Americans are satisfied with the nation's position in the world today. This is down from 65 percent in 2000. As Donald Trump and Joe Biden—two historically old and deeply unpopular presidential candidates—square off yet again for America's top job, it's not hard to understand these sentiments. America is in decline in the 21st century in measure after measure, from numerous public-policy failures, to increasingly dysfunctional politics, to an epidemic of mental health issues among young people. This predicament raises two essential questions: Is America's downturn merely another dip in a long arc of non-linear, yet essentially upward, progress? Or is it, rather, the first phase of steep and irreversible national decline? The answer lies with the American people. Like all nations, America is, above all, the hearts and minds of its people. And the trend line is moving hard in the wrong direction: Things are getting worse, not better. Tribalism is intensifying. Social-media platforms are getting smarter at manipulating human cognition. The political system's defects are worsening. And America's public-policy failures are deepening."
"This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, and we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all."
"You keep your promises to those that we've made, promises to. Those that have invested in should keep what they have. We shouldn't in any way jeopardize those that are already expecting something. This is about the new group coming in. It's the new ones coming in. It's those in their twenties that are coming in. You're coming to them and you're saying the game has changed. We're going to do this completely differently. That's how you go and you focus on it. We've got to start doing things like that. But more than that, we have to look at the fact that there is a spending problem in DC and Republicans and Democrats have done this to us, Neil. Don't forget that when this all started, with the Republicans, they passed a $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus package 419-6 in the House and 96 to 0 in the Senate that expanded welfare. Now we have 90 million people on Medicaid. You've got 42 million people on food stamps. We should be taking people from welfare to work. We shouldn't be paying people to sit on the couch and adding to the rolls of welfare. It was under Republicans' watch. They opened up earmarks again. Why are we spending on pork projects when one in six Americans can't pay their utility bill? We should stop borrowing. We don't have endless credit cards in our households or our businesses. Why are we allowing that to happen? And we should make sure that they understand that you should not pass a spending bill that doesn't take us back to pre-COVID levels. This is going to have to be harsh. It's going to take a president that is going to call out Republicans and Democrats. I did that as governor. I'll do it again as president."
"Donald Trump is the weakest president in American history when it comes to China, Chinese officials are pulling for his re-election."
"Washington’s hawkish stance on China is here to stay, irrespective of who wins the presidency in the 2024 election."
"It's time to finish the job."
"Republicans are focused on voter ID rules and making it harder to cast mail ballots."
"Donald Trumps set a foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3? Vote for the other guy."
"If he is re-elected, [Biden] he'll be 82 on Inauguration Day in 2025."
"The video of Joe Biden falling at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation should point that he shouldn't be running in 2024."
"This election is a referendum on the failures of Joe Biden - an open border, inflation, and a woke ideology infecting our society."
"Within 6 months , we're gonna drill , get our energy down, close up our border."
"Ron DeSantis voted against the wall."
"Ron [DeSantis] was a big lockdown governor on the China virus, sealing all beaches and everything else for an extended period."
"'Great American comeback'"
"Crooked Democrat Prosecutors, many of them Racists in Reverse, are trying to steal a second Presidential Election, They did it in 2020, and we’re not going to let them do it again in 2024. MAGA!!!"
"I was on Twitter spaces earlier tonight and it broke the internet."
"On day one of my new administration, I will direct the DOJ to investigate every radical district attorney and attorney general in America for their illegal, racist ... enforcement of the law"
"DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn’t even need to campaign."
"To further drain the swamp, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. We’re going to ask that everyone that sells drug, that gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts because it’s the only way."
"a hypothetical three-way 2024 election outcome is in which Biden wins only California and Connecticut, Trump wins nine hardcore Republican states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and a No Labels candidate wins the 39 remaining states."
"DeSantis has sold himself to the Republican establishment as a less chaotic avatar of Trumpism than Trump himself."
"With 2024 campaigns underway, we will stop removing videos with false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections."
"We want a good CEO of America."
"It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him."
"Biden and his administration “have weaponized the government against their political opponents.”"
"They can't beat me at the ballet box so they are out there trying to take me out by other means, anything they can think of, if I didn't run for office or if I wasn't leading by a lot it would all end and end very nicely I'd have a much easier life. On November 5th 2024 justice will be done."
"The next Republican president, in short, will almost certainly be the worst boss."
"United States is in a cold war with China and actually at war with Russia."
"This election will decide whether your generation inherits a FASCIST country or a FREE country—whether you will have the rule of tyrants or the rule of law—whether Marxist radicals burn our civilization to the ground, which they’re looking to do, or young patriots like you propel America to glorious new heights."
"We’re at such a low point in the American empire. Its spiritual decay and its immoral decadence are so profound that we have to begin on the foundational level of a spiritual awakening and a moral reckoning. Organized greed. Institutionalized hatred. Routinized indifference to the lives of poor and working people of all colors. We’ve got to get beyond an analysis of the predatory capitalist processes that have saturated every nook and cranny of the culture. We’ve got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonized by corporate wealth and by monied elite. We’ve got to get beyond that sense of impotence of the citizenry. These are all the signs of an . The only thing that we have to add is military overreach, and we see that as well."
"I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States."
"And this ain't a good sequel like Paddington 2. It's more like we're watching The Temple of Doom. No, this ain't The Empire Strikes Back It's the time you tried to reheat your Big Mac! This ain't even Fast and Furious 6! It's more like that Home Alone we got on Netflix! I think Olivia Rodrigo would agree. This is even worse than your ex eatin' strawberry ice cream, no! This ain't The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. This was Shrek: Forever After when it stole two hours of my life! It's not The Dark Knight! It's my high school production of Grease and I'm the only guy Because the football coach wouldn't let anyone miss a practice day! And if I do recall, they finished last anyway! Now I'm onstage doo-woppin' by myself That's when someone in the back row screams, "I'm in hell!" I feel lower than dirt, smaller than nothing And on the next day my junior prom date dumped me! We've all been there, right? Anyway, that's what this election feels like."
"NBC News exit polls show democracy and the economy were top of mind for voters today, followed by abortion and immigration."
"On Jan. 6, 2021, an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters swarmed a CBC News crew working near Capitol Hill. Nearly four years later, reporter Katie Nicholson tracked down one of the people who surrounded her that day to find out what she’s thinking heading into another volatile U.S. presidential election."
"I think that if you-- you, you ask me right now, why it went down this way? Ballpark answer: Misogyny, weakened rhetoric on immigration -- that is to say, Democrats stopped pushing back against anti-immigrant sentiment and started kind of adopting it themselves -- and a lack of economic populism. They are fighting for procedural institutionalist rhetoric in a world that is populist."