Wednesday Short Cuts
Notable quotables from Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, Will Chamberlain, Robby Starbuck, Gary Bauer, Lathan Watts, Allen West, and more.
The BIG Lie
“The SAVE Act won’t save anything. It will strip Americans of their right to vote.” —Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (“We get it. You want illegal foreigners to vote in our elections.” —Texas Republican Rep. Brandon Gill)
Demagogues
“The whole thing is full of cancer. It’s metastasized. … I don’t have sentimental feelings about ICE. … We have to dismantle and create a new agency.” —California congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar (D)
“The American people will not accept Trump’s authoritarianism. We will not accept oligarchy. We will not accept kleptocracy and corruption. We will not accept the continued attacks against the working class of this country.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT)
“MAGA, whether you like it or not, is a place where people find community. It’s a divisive, hateful community.” —Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Friendly Fire
“I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying. I hope Maine voters agree with me.” —Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) regarding Senate candidate Graham Platner (D)
Re: The Left
“The 2026 Democrat Party is a place where people named Medhi, Hasan, and Saikat lecture an American Jew named Jake about why he needs to support a guy with a Nazi tattoo.” —Will Chamberlain
“Everyone needs to stop calling the Democrats the Democratic Party. It’s propaganda marketing. In reality Democrat leaders hate democracy. … Stop doing them the favor of pretending that they care about being democratic. They care about power and advancing leftism at all costs.” —Robby Starbuck
For the Record
“An analysis of AAA gasoline prices found that drivers in states led by Democrats are paying an average of 41 cents more than drivers in Republican states.” —Brecca Stoll
Political Futures
“Democrat congressman Al Green, who was kicked out of the state of the union for insulting President Trump during the speech, loses his Texas Democrat primary runoff and his political career is over.” —Clay Travis
“President Donald Trump isn’t manipulating Republican voters. He’s empowering them to do something they’ve long wanted — elect strong conservatives, not fake ones. … This means there’s a simple way for Republican incumbents to avoid losing in a primary — keep your promises to Republican voters. No wonder the Republican establishment hates Trump so much.” —Victor Joecks
Observations
“Of all the dangers facing our country, perhaps the greatest is the one that doesn’t make many headlines — our collective national amnesia. … Our history textbooks are sanitized to be politically correct and give our children little sense of the greatness of the nation they live in. In fact, our children are increasingly taught the exact opposite — that America was never great and that it was founded on evil, slavery and genocide.” —Gary Bauer
“Too many of our fellow citizens have forgotten the foundational idea of our republic — which was informed by faith — that men must be good to be free.” —Lathan Watts
And Last…
“We must defeat Iran. It is the next layer in defeating the 21st-century axis of evil. But, we cannot do so, thinking military policy is done by social media. We must have an effective plan and stick to it in order to impose our will on the Islamic regime of Iran. This ain’t about making a deal. Deals are transactional.” —Allen West
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