More on Jan. 6th

“[President Biden is talking about] the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, the narrow set of MAGA supporters who tried to overthrow the US Government in a violent coup, those are people. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, conservatives, progressives – as Joe Biden is talking about – can unite together to defend the great American experiment of Democracy against the threat.”

The extremes of the MAGA movement to semi-fascism

“We are talking about a narrow set of people who want to overthrow our Constitutional form of government because they lost an election. That’s not the Republican Party at large. That’s not Trump voters at large. That is the narrow set of the MAGA movement that has invaded the Republican Party and that tried to take it over. That’s the narrow segment that organized an attempted coup at the Capitol on January 6. … This shouldn’t be a question if you are Democrat, a Republican, a conservative, a progressive. This is about: are you willing to stand up to people who bear arms or violent acts against our country? We can unite together to defend our democracy.”

The work of the Rural Voter Institute

“[Inflation] shouldn’t be a partisan issue. [According to the Rural Voter Institute’s studies] people can come together and rally – Republicans, Democrats, American families – can come together to tackle this problem. There are factors at play on the global stage right now impacting this [inflation]. For example, the war in Ukraine and what it is doing to food prices and gas prices and how it impacts the economy…  In World War 2 we faced inflation and shortages of supplies of gas. Americans came together because they knew freedom didn’t end at our shores and we banded together for that; Democrats and Republicans can do that today.”