"“Remember what the mob chanted as they stormed the Capitol and injured our officers? ‘Hang Mike Pence!' Someone should have told Donald Trump that the president’s job under Article II of the Constitution is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not that the vice president is executed!”"
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Speech to the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 19, 2024
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