Chairman Quote by Keith Ellison

“As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.”

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If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that,…

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I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views…

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I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and…

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If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying to stand up for a minority group that felt excluded and discriminated against, then I don't - I think that is a distortion of a person's record. I mean, a person's record is full, not just…

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When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.

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We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and…

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Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. He has hurt workers in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida, multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. I don't know any good thing this guy's ever done. And yet, because he was able to…

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The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

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I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned…

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I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what?…

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I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady at the diner, the folks who are worried about whether that plant is going to close, they've got to be our focus. They've got to be a laser-beam focus on everything we do, and everything we do should…

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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout…

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