Interesting comments by Sen. Mark Warner (see video, below) on a number of topics this afternooon at the Democratic National Convention. Here are some highlights:
- “I think it was a great speech [by President Biden last night], I think President Biden laid out in great detail his many, many accomplishments, and I think many of those accomplishments have not been fully felt by the American people yet…the list of accomplishments [is] huge.”
- “I think Joe Biden has been a remarkable president, I think he with enormous grace last night passed the torch to Kamala Harris…”
- “The best is yet to come with [Kamala Harris]….I think she is going to be a great president.”
- Kamala Harris “did such a great job of questioning then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, that I even felt sorry for Jeff Sessions, and that takes a lot.”
- He discussed his “schooling” by Kamala Harris on making a tuna melt, lol.
- To the question, “Is Virginia in play?”, Warner responded: “Listen, if the Trump campaign decides to spend a whole lot more money in Virginia and put their non-existent field operation all in Virginia, it wouldn’t make me or Tim Kaine too upset…As somebody who had a near-death experience in 2014…you can’t take anything for granted in Virginia…Tim Kaine is working his tail off, the Donald Trump/MAGA version of Republicanism, I don’t think it sells that much [in Virginia]…We have not one but two former Virginia Congresspeople, Denver Riggleman and Barbara Comstock, who’ve both endorsed VP Harris…”
- “I think Kamala Harris is doing fine on her issue rollout…I think…we’ve been in a pretty dark spot in our politics…I think she’s brought a joy back to politics.”
- “I think on national security, [Kamala Harris] is going to be great…”
- “The conflict that kills more people every day than Gaza and Ukraine combined is Sudan…I think it is time for America…if we could show that we are actually interested in stopping conflict in Africa…I think it’s huge…If we could move the Sunni Arab states to closer alignment with us…they’re ready to do a recognition of Israel, but that is not going to happen until there is a path forward on Gaza and a ceasefire and a path forward for the Palestinians.”
- “I agree that…I do think the Administration with some of the weapons that we’ve given them need to take off some of the shackles so that the Ukrainians in terms of hitting some of the airfields and some of the missile-launching sites can go beyond the 80-mile or 80-kilometer limit we’ve got right now. Clearly, Russia has not observed any of that. I think the American people were never as isolationist as Donald Trump or JD Vance were about Ukraine.”
Mark Warner says that “if the Trump campaign decides to spend a whole lot more money in Virginia and put their non-existent field operation all in Virginia
It wouldn’t make me and Tim Kaine too upset” https://t.co/8zuWhXFLSl
— Sam Shirazi (@samshirazim) August 20, 2024
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