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CNN’s @jaketapper: “Sick and in isolation, Mr. President, you have become a symbol of your own failures. Failures of recklessness, ignorance, arrogance. The same failures you have been inflicting on the rest of us ... Get well and get it together" #CNNSOTU
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CNN’s @jaketapper to Jill Biden: “Your husband has been known to make the occasional gaffe…”
Biden: “You can’t even go there. After Donald Trump you cannot even say the word gaffe.” #CNNSOTU
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"I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," Rep. Jamie Raskin says as he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning his son. #CNNSOTU cnn.it/2LwnheX
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.@jaketapper directly addresses Pres. Trump: “The American people ... need someone to explain what is going to be done to get us out of this. It’s a moment that requires leadership. It requires honest information. It requires empathy and it requires a plan. Do you have one?”
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he will be voting for former Vice President Joe Biden. “I certainly cannot, in any way, support President Trump this year.” #CNNSOTU
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Court orders Donald Trump to pay legal fees in Stormy Daniels suit cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/…
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As President Trump refuses to accept the results of the election and continues to employ various legal tactics, @jaketapper asks:
"How long is the Republican Party going to continue to defer to unhinged, mendacious desperation led by the gang that couldn't sue straight?"
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TAPPER: "I don't want to be talking about this. Donald Trump is out there saying it. It is unstable."
JOHNSON: "But you continue to."
TAPPER: "Because you won't address it!"
@jaketapper and @SpeakerJohnson spar over Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer tangent at a rally.
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.@jaketapper takes a look at how Republican lawmakers will be judged for how they handle Pres. Trump. He says they should remember lessons learned from how Joseph McCarthy’s contemporaries handled him. #CNNSOTU
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"That is how the terrorist attack of Jan. 6 happened. Millions of Americans infected with the virus of disinformation,” says @jaketapper.
"Until those who spread the big lie work to correct it... I fear that the US will continue to be in this bad and dangerous place" #CNNSOTU
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CNN's @jaketapper calls out Republican lawmakers for reversing their views on oversight over the executive branch. “If you only apply constitutional standards to the other political party and not to your own, then those aren’t principles, they’re tactics.”
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“I love my husband. I’m faithful to my husband,” @petebuttigieg responds to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments. “I’m not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.” #CNNSOTU
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"It's unthinkable to me. It's almost treasonous. And it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that." - Sen. Mitt Romney reacts to pro-Putin sentiments from GOP members and some media outlets: cnn.it/3hphHHk #CNNSOTU
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Lawsuits that tried to disrupt Biden's wins in four states are withdrawn | @kpolantz cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/…
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CNN's @jaketapper on the fallout from the US Capitol siege: “The images of this attack are so shocking that many of Trump’s enablers are finally... beginning to get the goddamn point that his continuous lies... and winks and nods to violent extremists are dangerous." #CNNSOTU
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President Trump’s claim that states have enough tests to reopen “is just absolutely false,” says Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. “It’s not accurate to say there’s plenty of testing out there and the governors should just get it done. That’s just not being straightforward.” #CNNSOTU
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“President Trump did us a favor by exposing these elected officials” who supported his assault on democracy, @jaketapper says.
“For those of us who believe in standards and norms and the US Constitution, we need to thank President Trump.” #CNNSOTU
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CNN’s @jaketapper: “If there is no accountability and no attempt by the Republican Party to stop these insane lies that have taken root in their party… This is not going to be the end of MAGA terrorism, this will only be the beginning.” #CNNSOTU
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TAPPER: "He wants to use the military to go after the enemy within."
VANCE: "There's the game that you're playing."
TAPPER: "I’m not playing a game."
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"We didn't need more witnesses, we needed more senators with spines."
Del. Stacey Plaskett, one of the House impeachment managers for former Pres. Trump's second trial, reacts to the Senate vote acquitting the former president. #CNNSOTU cnn.it/3akTvDk
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Jake Tapper: “Do you think President Trump is a white nationalist?”
Beto O’Rourke: “Yes, I do.”
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PENCE: "On this vote, the ayes are 50; the nays are 48. The nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh of Maryland to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed."
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.@jaketapper on the US Capitol siege and accountability: “What happens to us, what happens to our country, if we continue to pretend leaders who played a role in this attempted coup, in this terrorist attack, end up doing just fine with no consequences at all?” #CNNSOTU
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The Trump team's claim that millions of votes were stolen using election software is "insane," says @jaketapper. "State election officials and judges throughout the country are serving as protecters of our democracy at a time" when GOP leaders in Washington are failing at the job
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Former Republican Congresswoman @Liz_Cheney calls out @SpeakerJohnson for blocking Ukraine aid: “Mike Johnson ought to search his conscience” and not go down the “path of cowardice and doing what Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin want him to do.”
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“The very least the President can do is to try to get to the bottom of what role Putin may have played... and the very least interviewers can do is ask the President about those who serve and sacrifice for us.” - @jaketapper on the lack of accountability over Russian bounty intel
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On #CNNSOTU @jaketapper calls out the "downright falsehoods" Republican leaders are injecting into American politics. cnn.it/3xFU0RY
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NEWS: Sen. Schumer says he agrees with Sen. Mark Warner - Dems should refuse to vote on an FBI director until a special prosecutor is named.
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"It doesn't make you a man to pick on trans and gay kids. It just makes you an asshole."
@SenFettermanPA reacts to the Trump campaign's attacks against transgender Americans.
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Mark Meadows: “We’re not going to control the pandemic, we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations.”
Jake Tapper: “Why aren’t we going to get control of the pandemic?”
Meadows: “Because it is a contagious virus” #CNNSOTU
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.@jaketapper on Trump's attack on Romney and Dems at prayer breakfast: “To me, nothing could be more indicative of a distance from the humility and love that so many of us get from religion than the act of using a unity prayer breakfast to attack the faith of others.” #CNNSOTU
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READ: Rep. Paul Mitchell's letter quitting the GOP, fearing 'long-term harm to our democracy' with its support for Trump's actions cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/…
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President Trump has had “plenty of nasty things to say” about military leaders who have publicly criticized him, @jaketapper says. “There is one group of generals, however, that the President is standing firm with. Dead, racist, losers... Confederate commanders” #CNNSOTU
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“We have a Constitution and we have to follow that Constitution and the President has drifted away from it,” Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he agrees with fellow former generals who have condemned President Trump’s actions against protesters. #CNNSOTU
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Fmr. GOP Rep. Paul Mitchell, who died earlier this month after a battle with cancer, asked for this interview to be run after he passed. He expressed his wish for “real bipartisanship” within the country. “I think you have to choose whether or not to love people.” #CNNSOTU
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says there could potentially be between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths related to the coronavirus and millions of cases. “I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target, that you could so easily be wrong,” he adds. #CNNSOTU
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Andrew Yang on 'SNL' cast member's use of racial slurs: "I've experienced a lot of anti-Asian racism throughout my upbringing. And it hurts." Yang adds that he also believes the country has become too "punitive and vindictive about remarks that people find offensive." #CNNSOTU
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar says the Senate should abolish the filibuster in order to codify abortion rights after the Supreme Court allowed Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law to stand: “Now and over the next years, we just will get nowhere if we keep this filibuster in place.”
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Obama to discuss George Floyd death and policing reform in virtual town hall tonight | @mj_lee cnn.com/us/live-news/george-…
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“The big problem is Disney thanking people accused of committing genocide.” @jaketapper calls out Disney for filming parts of “Mulan” in Xinjiang, the reported area in China where an estimated 2 million people of Muslim minority groups are being held in internment camps. #CNNSOTU
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Kamala Harris said that President Donald Trump's word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine is not enough: "I would not trust his word. I would trust the word of public health experts and scientists but not Donald Trump" #CNNSOTU cnn.it/3lYAU3A
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"Republican lawmakers preparing to formally vote against the will of the American people, do you really not see what a mockery you're about to make of" the US's reputation of holding free and fair elections? -@JakeTapper on GOP lawmakers who plan to challenge Biden's win #CNNSOTU
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Sources close to the White House say some officials are beginning to quietly back away from Trump. #CNNElection | @Acosta cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…
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New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters | @jamiegangel, @Kevinliptakcnn, @MichaelRWarren & @MarshallCohen cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders reacts to his inauguration moment that went viral in the form of a meme: "It turns out actually to be a good thing and not only a fun thing." He's turning the moment into a charitable effort for Meals on Wheels in Vermont. cnn.it/3omcP7b #CNNSOTU
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.@jaketapper: “If members of Congress are looking only to November 2020 and not to their eventual obituary, well, then they're viewing not just this vote but the U.S. presidency through a light that is not just dim but pitch black.” #CNNSOTU
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Bill Taylor defended as a "man of honor" and "public servant" by three veterans who served with him. Taylor, a key witness in the House impeachment inquiry, has come under attack by the President. @jaketapper reports. cnn.it/2qH3tKP #CNNSOTU
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“I think we have abandoned our Syrian Kurdish partners,” says Ret. Gen. David Petraeus about US pulling troops from northern Syria.
“And this does not end an endless war, it probably prolongs it because this gives ISIS an opportunity for resurgence.” #CNNSOTU
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'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book | @jamiegangel, @jeremyherb & @elizabethstuart cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/…
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Biden is inheriting a nonexistent Covid-19 vaccine plan from Trump administration, sources say | @mj_lee cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/…
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.@JakeTapper: "The son of Scranton and the daughter of immigrants are headed to the White House" cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…
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Republican Sen. James Lankford reacts to Stephen Miller earlier calling the Democratic Party “a domestic extremist organization”:
“Well, they have a very different view than I do. I'm a conservative Republican. I have Democratic friends that think very differently, vote very differently, but they're still my friend on it. So just having that ideology, just believing differently than some other American is not illegal. That's America.”
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.@jaketapper: Some in the West are proposing that Ukraine concede the Donbas to end the war. But those experts may have lost sight of one key part of what motivates Ukrainians. They know what and who they're fighting against. They know life under Russian repression.
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.@jaketapper: As GOP officials "deal with these horrors of a president whose hideous lies are putting their election hopes in Georgia at risk, and more importantly... even putting lives at risk, it has to be asked: Did you not know who this man was when you took him in?" #CNNSOTU
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.@jaketapper calls out Republican leaders who declined to appear on #CNNSOTU following two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
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CNN’s @jaketapper on some GOP leaders welcoming the candidacy of a QANON conspiracy supporter: The Republican Party is “no longer about the establishment versus the MAGA forces of disruption. It’s about those who still care about facts... and those who have no allegiance to them"
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Secret Service sends more agents to Delaware in anticipation of a potential Biden win. #CNNElection cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…
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Stacey Abrams on Georgia's upcoming runoff election: "Democrats are prepared to win this election because this is the first runoff where we have the level of investment and engagement that it takes to win a runoff." cnn.it/3466Dc8 #CNNSOTU
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.@jaketapper: "Liz Cheney, [Trump] said, should be put before a war tribunal. None of that sounds fascistic to you at all?"
@JDVance: "No, of course it doesn't."
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EXCLUSIVE: This Sunday on #CNNSOTU w/ @jaketapper: 2020 Democratic presidential candidate @AndrewYang. Tune in!
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Stacey Abrams on a recount in Georgia: “Recounts … essentially mean a rescan of what’s been done very painstakingly over the last 5 days, and we know that whether it's tomorrow or next week, the results will be the same, that Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia” #CNNSOTU
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.@SenMarkKelly responds to RNC co-chair Lara Trump repeating false claims about Hurricane Helene relief, telling @DanaBashCNN “the Trump family at every opportunity uses… misinformation to lie to the American people.”
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GOP Sen. Mitt Romney told @jaketapper he has seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud across the US.
"There's just no evidence of that at this stage. And I think it's important for us to recognize that the world is watching," Romney said cnn.it/2GGjN79 #CNNSOTU
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As riot raged at Capitol, Trump tried to call senators to overturn election | @SunlenSerfaty, @devancole1, & @arogDC cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/…
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On #CNNSOTU w/ @jaketapper Fmr. DNI Clapper says "our institutions are under assault." snpy.tv/2pLnD0k
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“Why wasn’t Congress consulted? It seems like more people at Mar-a-Lago heard about this than people in the United States Congress,” presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on President Trump’s order to kill Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. #CNNSOTU
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On #CNNSOTU, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @jaketapper Biden's choice for chief of staff, Ron Klain, was "absolutely terrific" during the Ebola crisis.
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“Coherence is not particularly evident in Chairman Graham’s position on this impeachment inquiry.” @jaketapper examines the political evolution of Sen. Lindsey Graham and the Ukraine scandal. #CNNSOTU
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.@jaketapper: GOP officials no longer have to go along with Pres. Trump’s false claims about election fraud, but they continue to do so “because he's not leaving American political life. As long as there is a Twitter and a right-wing media ecosystem, [Trump] will have a voice"
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Stacey Abrams on the upcoming Senate runoff election in Georgia: "This is going to be a very tough battle, but it is absolutely within the realm of possibility. In fact, the realm of likelihood the Democrats can win" #CNNSOTU cnn.it/38byY3b
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“For a while, life is not going to be the way it used to be in the United States. We have to just accept that if we want to do what’s best for the American public," Dr. Anthony Fauci says about coronavirus mitigation measures. #CNNSOTU
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, says he is "embarrassed that more people in the party aren't speaking up" regarding President Trumps' refusal to concede cnn.it/336gVIL #CNNSOTU
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.@JakeTapper to President Trump on coronavirus: “Respectfully, what is the plan for a way out of this? Do you have one?” #CNNSOTU cnn.it/3b3QPbe
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.@SpeakerPelosi says the President downplaying the severity of #coronavirus is “deadly."
“As the President fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution.” #CNNSOTU
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Former Bush Commerce Secretary @carlosgutierrez: "I’m not worried about Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I’m worried about millions of kids that today are seeing a different America." #CNNSOTU snappytv.com/tc/8304730
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"If he doesn't have the courage to do the right thing for the working families of West Virginia and America, let him vote no in front of the whole world." Sen. Bernie Sanders reacts to Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin saying "no" to Biden's Build Back Better Act. #CNNSOTU
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Stacey Abrams says she agrees with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that efforts by GOP lawmakers in Georgia to make it more difficult to vote is “racist.”
"It is a redux of Jim Crow, in a suit and tie." #CNNSOTU
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.@DanaBashCNN presses Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on why he doesn't support the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.
Sen. Chuck Schumer "will not have my vote on the 3.5," Manchin says.
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McConnell admits he was wrong to say Obama administration failed to leave pandemic playbook cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/…
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These are the states requiring people to wear masks when out in public cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/states…
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Sanders: "There’s something absurd when I get 46% of the delegates that come from real contests, real elections & 7% of super delegates."
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Tammy Duckworth demands more details on Russian bounties on US troops | @ZcohenCNN cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/…
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Cory Booker on latest mass shootings: “I think at the end of the day, especially because this was the white supremacist manifesto… that Donald Trump is responsible for this. He is responsible because he is stoking fears and hatred and bigotry.” #CNNSOTU
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“I don’t know how they can live with themselves,” Sen. Joe Manchin says on GOP Senate colleagues Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz objecting to electoral results despite the US Capitol siege. Manchin says he asked Hawley to change his position when they were in the lockdown room. #CNNSOTU
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.@SenatorCollins on #CNNSOTU says that receiving spontaneous applause at Maine airport was "extraordinary" snpy.tv/2u9vF54
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Trump unhappy with his attorney's performance, sources say | @kaitlancollins cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…
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#BREAKING: CNN Projection: California Gov. Gavin Newsom will remain in office cnn.com/politics/live-news/c…
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.@GovTimWalz on his political future: “I'm certainly thinking about running again in Minnesota, if that's what they want. I am not thinking about running in 2028. And my advice to folks is, if in this moment you're planning for 2028, you're going to get rolled by the people in the streets. You just need to be out there making sure you're helping and doing things like Cory Booker's doing, doing things like Bernie Sanders, AOC, things that we see people out talking to folks.”
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FIRST ON @CNN: Biden campaign launches first ad featuring Cindy McCain | @sarahmucha cnn.com/2020/10/10/politics/…
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Flynn should be sentenced for lying and perjury, court-appointed lawyer says | @kpolantz cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/…
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