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Former California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs asserted on the first evening of the Republican National Convention (RNC) that her court battle against the teachers’ unions became an even greater struggle when the Obama-Biden administration and then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris intervened to defeat her cause.

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” anchor Jake Tapper asked former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) if it was “possible that the Republican Party is now the party of deranged bigots.”

Saturday on MSNBC, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) called for “unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.”

Wednesday on MSNBC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Republicans would have to come to the table to negotiate the next relief package because the coronavirus pandemic is “only going to get worse.”

Tuesday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” veteran journalist Carl Bernstein called on Republican lawmakers led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to demand President Donald Trump resigns to save Americans’ lives in the coronavirus pandemic.

Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams reacted to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) writing that the Founding Fathers thought slavery was “a necessary evil.”

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the Republican lawmaker’s “disarray” and delays on the next coronavirus stimulus package is “causing suffering for America’s families.”

Friday on Fox News Channel anchor Chris Wallace said President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers couldn’t “get their act together” on the next round of stimulus amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” network political commentator and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said President Donald Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s prison sentence would cost the Republican Party Majority control over the Senate in November.

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin accused the Republican Party of being a cult of President Donald Trump to the point they are denying the extent of the coronavirus pandemic to fit the president’s narrative.

Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” the former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) said he believed President Donald Trump had damaged the brand of the Republican Party to the point of a “meltdown.”

The Connecticut GOP called upon the “Democratic Party” to change its name Monday, issuing a resolution that asserts Democrats must address “the hundreds of years of racial oppression, violence, and multiple violations of human rights” associated with their party.

Thursday on MSNBC, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said if Democrats didn’t pass racial equality legislation like the Civil Rights Act, he would be in a cotton field, not Congress.

Friday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson expressed his frustration with Republicans for not being more proactive in their approach to responding to the civil unrest and mob rule plaguing the country.

Sunday on CNN, host Fareed Zakaria accused Republican lawmakers of repeating President Donald Trump’s lies “with a lightness of heart.”

The chairman of the Republican Party in New Mexico on Saturday lambasted the state’s Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham (D), suggesting she is a hypocrite for violating her coronavirus lockdown order to make a frivolous jewelry purchase and accused her of lying about it.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said Republicans were living in an “alternative universe” of conspiracy theories aimed at former President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.

The Republican Party should always abide by its core principles, and yet at the same time, it should return to its Lincolnian roots, becoming the avowed party of first responders, blue-collars, and other frontline workers—and joined by, of course, soldiers, homemakers, and believers.  

ActBlue, the online donor portal used by various Democrat organizations and candidates, saw $533 million in donations during the first three months of the year, marking the “largest quarter for small-dollar donors on ActBlue by every metric,” the organization announced on Monday.

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” sports editor for The Nation Dave Zirin said those protesting the stay-at-home orders are “the Fox News, Nazi, confederate death cult” of the Republican Party.

CT Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said he is looking into how his state’s voters may be allowed to cast their ballots by mail in the primary on June 2.

Mike Lindell, inventor and CEO of My Pillow Inc., sat down for an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Daily at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday and spoke about his new book, his efforts to paint Minnesota Republican red, and President Trump rebranding the Republican Party as the “common sense party.”

Sen. Mike Braun says now is the time for Republicans to embrace a healthcare strategy that emphasizes “transparency and competition.”

The desperation of the abortion industry and the politicians whose campaigns it funds was on full display as the House voted Thursday to remove the decades-old deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) Thursday on MSNBC attacked “quivering” Senate Republicans who will not do anything regarding the Justice Department’s reversal on Roger Stone’s sentence following a tweet posted by President Donald Trump.

The Republican Party of Duval County was left shaken Saturday after a man allegedly drove his van through its voter registration tent in a Walmart parking lot, took a video of what he had done, and flipped off volunteers before fleeing the scene.

Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein during Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s impeachment coverage, accused Senate Republicans of being engaged in a “cover-up.”

Chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party, Jane Timken, is defending Republican governors like Ohio’s Mike DeWine for asking the federal government to continue resettling refugees in their states.

Former Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH) says Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine should be “compassionate for Ohioans first” before importing more refugees to his state, as he has decided to do, at the expense of taxpayers. 

New Republican NJ Rep. Van Drew signed a discharge petition to force a House floor vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

On CNN on Wednesday, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said the chaos and “spreading fear and hatred” by Republicans through the impeachment process was threatening our democracy.

Coulter said there’s something to the idea the mainstream media want Trump re-elected, so that they can keep “going mental every night.”

Actress Charlize Theron says she loves her Republican friends because they are Never Trumpers who take issue with the current administration.

On Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) argued dangerous, hateful rhetoric is becoming synonymous with the Republican Party. Host Joy Reid asked, “We’re also in this moment, and you faced it even with your opponent, having

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” former ABC’s “World News” anchor Sam Donaldson said the Republican Party must be “reconstituted as it once was” to be a good party with good people once again. Donaldson said, “Do we