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Tested by Trump’s first 100 days, Democrats take stock of lessons learned for fights ahead

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    • 88:88
      Now the big question, one big question he’s going to have is how deferential to be to the Republican leaders in Congress,
      The Gazette
      York explained on Fox News’s America Report
    • 88:88
      He really, really gives what they like to call ‘fiery speeches’ a lot, which means he usually accuses Trump of being a Nazi,
      The Gazette
      York said
    • 88:88
      This will be an entirely different country in a short period of time,
      CNN
      he said
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      Chris Murphy
      I don’t think necessarily people know what to do given that the level of peril is so high, but at least we’re not arguing anymore whether something insidious going on,
      CNN
      Murphy said
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      Elissa Slotkin
      The times have come for us, and we need to do what the Democratic Party isn’t particularly good at, which is strategic planning and a coordinated message. It’s not that everybody has to say the same thing, but we have to be playing on the same team,
      CNN
      Slotkin said
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      It’s why I’ve been fighting the president on this,
      CNN
      Healy recalled saying
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      These are folks who are looking around and seeing that if no one is going to fight for them, they have to fight for themselves,
      CNN
      said Litman
    • 88:88
      Kris Mayes
      This is going to be a marathon. We know that,
      CNN
      said Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who was part of the tariff lawsuit filed last week
    • 88:88
      Ben Wikler
      At the beginning of the Trump administration, a lot of Democrats viewed Trump as a popular president that they needed to find ways to work around,
      CNN
      said Wisconsin state Democratic chair Ben Wikler
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      He’s made it very clear: He doesn’t care what the other two branches say, and the other branches don’t have guns,
      CNN
      said the person, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution
    • 88:88
      The awareness of the harm because of the playbook we’ve been running — not talking about national numbers, but being local, specific and tangible and focusing on harms that have been inflicted, not things that are hypothetical, that’s really on scale broken through,
      CNN
      Ryan said
    • 88:88
      Sean Casten
      I think we’re moving from incoherent to directed anger, ... He says, optimistically.”
      CNN
      Now: ... Casten said, then added his own stage direction
    • 88:88
      Doug Jones (baseball)
      I’ve said all along, sooner or later, some of this is going to start catching up to Republicans in Alabama,
      CNN
      Jones said
    • 88:88
      Kris Mayes
      We have to win in the courts to prevent these unconstitutional actions from going into place,
      CNN
      said Mayes, who is up for reelection next year in a battleground state Trump won
    • 88:88
      Hakeem Jeffries
      There are but two parties in America right now: patriots and traitors.”
      CNN
      Jeffries kicked things off by quoting Ulysses S. Grant’s writing
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      The secret sauce for us has been the fact that we are working together as attorneys general,
      CNN
      she said
    • 88:88
      This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It’s our declaration of economic independence,
      CNN
      the president said, declaring “Liberation Day” in the White House Rose Garden on April 2.
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      The United States was more than just a nation. It’s a brand,
      CNN
      billionaire investor Ken Griffin warned at the Semafor World Economy Summit last week
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      In game theory, it’s called strategic uncertainty. So, you’re not going to tell the person on the other side of the negotiation where you’re going to end up. And nobody’s better at creating this leverage than President Trump,
      CNN
      Bessent said on ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday
    • 88:88
      Donald Trump
      We are a department store, and we set the price,
      CNN
      Trump told Time