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20 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Sen. Ben Sasse statement: "President Trump lost Michigan by more than 100,000 votes, and the campaign and its allies have lost in or withdrawn from all five lawsuits in Michigan for being unable to produce any evidence...
...wild press conferences erode public trust. So no, obviously Rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We are a nation of laws, not tweets.”
Pretty lengthy statement. He also said: “When Trump campaign lawyers have stood before courts under oath, they have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud — because there are legal consequences for lying to judges,” politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Romney:  “It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President,”

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18 Nov
Sen. Capito was scheduled to talk to Krebs today

“I was going to tell him thank you for a good job," she said after Krebs was fired. "I’m still going to tell him that — just not today"

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10 Nov
Cotton will nominate McConnell as GOP leader today: “A few weeks ago, someone called him the Apex Predator of American politics, which may be the best yet. I nominate as our leader, the Apex Predator of the United States Senate.”

⁦@marianne_levine⁩ politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
McConnell re-elected by acclamation. No dissent
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3. Barrasso
4. Blunt
5. Ernst
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10 Nov
'We're not some demonic cult': Democrats fume over faulty messaging that cost them in red and purple states

⁦@heatherscope⁩ politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Jones: “I was fighting the same battle that Jaime Harrison was fighting, that Mike Espy was fighting, that Cal Cunningham was fighting, that Steve Bullock was fighting. And Democrats have not been able to fully counter the Republican narrative.”
Manchin: “I’ve watched the last three elections: 2016, ‘18 and ‘20. We truly should have been in the majority and it didn’t happen...Whatever our message is, it hasn’t worked. And I would hope that our leadership from the top to bottom understands that. It has not worked.“
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25 Sep
Republicans prep lightning quick SCOTUS confirmation. Several GOP senators say on the record that vote will happen before Election Day and no dissent

Cramer: "no one has ever gotten up and made the case for why we should do this after the election.”

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“He and Trump and McConnell are fully committed to barreling ahead"
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24 Sep
Sen. Grassley, most senior R senator, on Trump’s transfer of power comments

Grassley: “I would have the same concern when Hillary Clinton advised Biden not to concede the election”
“We have a constitution and the constitution says when the presidency ends.”
“You ask me just from the standpoint of what the president said: it isn’t very good advice from Hillary Clinton to advise Biden about that”
McConnell when asked a follow up

“Did you see my tweet? that pretty well sums it up”

Do you take Trump seriously?

“That’s what my tweet was about I think it pretty well sums up how I feel about it”
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23 Sep
There’s a reason Dems leaders aren’t leaning into possibility of adding judges to SCOTUS: they might not have votes to do it.

A growing number of D candidates in competitive Senate races say they are unlikely to support expanding the court

w @JamesArkin
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