Minnesota Republican state Sen. Steve Drazkowski on bill providing free school breakfast and lunch: "I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry. Yet today. I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they don't have access to enough food to eat." #mnleg
Steve Drazkowski is now fundraising off the blowback to his ignorant, callous comments
More Steve Drazkowski on nutrition for kids: "I haven't seen the data that suggests that there is more kids going hungry today... I live in rural Minnesota, and I haven't met one yet... How can kids be malnourished and record obesity at the same time? I don't get it, madam chair"
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I'm going to do a video thread on Trump's speech to the Georgia GOP convention -- his first after his federal indictment. Follow along if interested.
ok this is kinda funny
Trump gets an extended round of applause after he frames his indictment as election interference and says, "you have to defeat 'em ... they're coming after you, and I'm just standing in their way"
"We can depend on each other with absolute conviction" -- Rishi Sunak on the US-UK alliance
Biden, with one word, indicates his belief that McCarthy will ultimately come around on additional aid to Ukraine
Biden: "It's wrong that a person can be married in the morning in the US and fired in the afternoon by their employer because they're gay ... these are our kids. These are our neighbors ... it matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country."
Pence says during his CNN town hall that he has no interest in pardoning people convicted of crimes in connection with January 6, saying he stands by "due process"
Pence refuses to ruling out pardoning Trump if he's elected POTUS
this is a lie, but Dana Bash made no attempt to fact check
House Republicans are holding yet another hearing today to beat up on the DC city government. They're obsessed.
the House hearing room erupts in laughter when Ken Cuccinelli hems and haws instead of just affirming that Joe Biden won the 2020 election
Raskin: "We just went through the unprecedented agony of a POTUS trying to overthrow a presidential election... and now instead of dealing with that reality... our colleagues come forward with legislation to try to impose a photo ID on local elections in the District of Columbia"