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Rep @Jim_Jordan (R-OH), campaigning for Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), speaks on the role of members of Congress: "They get the privilege of serving. Jen understands that."
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Rep. @JoaquinCastrotx (D-TX): "This mass deportation campaign in Texas is as much Greg Abbott's as it is Donald Trump's."
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Rep. @JoaquinCastrotx (D-TX) on "gleeful gratuitous cruelty" of Trump admin. on treatment of children in ICE detention: "The traumatic effect on children caused the court to help reach this agreement at 20 days...the Trump administration has been fighting that limit."
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EPA Admin. @epaleezeldin and Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) on the environmental benefits of pipelines for energy transportation: "It's amazing that this topic has been looked at as controversial or divisive."
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EPA Admin. @epaleezeldin on Supreme Court precedent for passing regulations: "It is now very much set in case law...that Congress needs to debate and pass legislation to tell that agency whether or not they should be imposing all of those costly regulations on the economy."
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German Foreign Affairs Minister Johann Wadephul calls on U.N. states to create safety requirements on AI with oversight: "AI is not waiting for our institutions to catch up, our institutions have to catch up with AI... Power must be bound by responsibility."
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Gov. candidate @ZachLahn (R-IA) says Rob Sand (D-IA) has been running a negative campaign based on a "lie" about where Lahn lives and calls it "theater" and "putting on a costume," which he says is not a surprise because Sand "used to be a male model."
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.@KarlRove says Democrats "are not stupid enough" to run Gavin Newsom or J.B. Pritzker for president in 2028 because they will not nominate a "governor of a failed state."
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.@KarlRove says U.S. Sen. candidate Ken Paxton (R-TX) should debate opponent James Talarico (D-TX): "If he doesn't, he's missing an opportunity to turn things around for him."
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.@KarlRove says "it would be a mistake" if the GOP nominates JD Vance instead of holding an open primary in 2028 because presidential elections are about "change" and to not "be a clone" of a past president.
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.@KarlRove says President Trump's immigration tactics are not about capturing "bad actors" anymore: "He went from being the guy who solved the border problem to one who had created a new problem, which was all this descension in major cities... over an ill-informed ICE effort."
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.@KarlRove expresses concern with Trump saying he may save his Super PAC money for a presidential library, rather than spend it on midterm races: "If he does that, there will be hell to pay. Cause there will be a lot of people who lose close races..."
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.@KarlRove criticizes GOP for pushing Trump in the midterms and mocks President Trump's convention speech: "A president in a year like this ought to recede as a political figure and grow as a presidential figure."
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U.S. Sen. candidate @jamestalarico (D-TX) says there should be a suspension of the federal gas and diesel tax as an "immediate action" to provide relief amidst Iran war: "And end this disastrous war so we can lower prices for Texans."
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U.S. Sen. candidate @jamestalarico (D-TX) talks about the importance of his faith and the way it influences his approach on politics: "I'm not just supposed to love my neighbors who vote like me... I think Texans are hungry for a politics that is built on that kind of love."
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U.S. House candidate @JenBalkcom (R-NC) discusses her efforts to keep transgender youth out of team sports in the state: "Who knew that we would actually come to this...? So I stepped up and I protected women in sports."
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U.S. Senate candidate @WhatleyNC (R-NC) says the American dream is under attack by a "radical woke mob" funded by California, New York and places overseas that is "led by Roy Cooper."
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SUNDAY: America's Book Club with Scott Turow – 6pm ET on C-SPAN c-span.org/americas-book-clu…
Scott Turow: "AI is presented as the future of America, that future is being written with stolen words...I don't understand why the richest corporations in the world wanted to start out with work that they knew was stolen." SUNDAY: America's Book Club – 6pm ET on C-SPAN
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Coming up on C-SPAN2.
On September 26, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon participated in the first-ever televised presidential debate. Here is a portion of the Republican's nominee's opening statement... You can see the full debate this Saturday at 9:30 AM ET on @cspan 2 @cspanhistory.
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