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you laid out one scenario, i think there are others. the key thing is focus on a woman s right to choose. we didn t stop mitch mcconnell when he stole a supreme court seat in 2016 but we have to stop donald trump s roe reversal reproductive rights rip off. we can t let this happen. i think democrats showed they can make it happen when they beat robert bork in 1987. if they put pressure on collins, flake, and murkowski, they can turn around what they re trying to do here. jeff flake at 8:57 tonight, knowing what he said in his little known comments on sunday and tuesday, issued a statement that doesn t really say anything. he said, as i have said before, approving a principle conservative who will interpret the constitution rather than legislate from the bench should
that s kind of a subset of a subset are firmly behind the president s policies. not only that, if you ask them as a whole what their most important policy item is, it s are you standing with the president? and they take any criticism of the president as somehow something that s not conservative. and that s what s got to change. it really does. and i hope to be able to in the next 14 months speak out continually. i hope my colleagues do as well. we re entering a time we re normalalizing bafr we shouldn t normalalize. do you think that s unique to arizona? no, it s not. that you can t go out, be who you are, a principle conservative, offer your ideas on policy but say i disagree with president trump on a, b, and c. it s not good enough to be a principle conservative anymore?
waved election. i will not project anything in may, 2018, that will happen 18 months from now, right now, whose team would you rather be on, the republicans or the democrats in 2018? i d rather be on the republican team. i point out, jennifer, throughout the campaign strongly expressed her dislike of president trump. she still has that strong dislike of president trump. that s fine, i appreciate where she s coming from. i m a principle conservative. whatever, whatever jennifer, you got to change your mind. i get that. can i finish my point? can i finish my point? could i finish my point? yeah, go ahead, finish your point. my point is this, the number one thing that will drive this election is going to be the economy and if the economy is going strong, which i think we can expect, because it has been going strong, i think the republicans will do very well. if the economy falters and fails, then republicans will be in big trouble. which means they have to get to a policy agenda
an idea that has bipartisan sport, at least outside of washington. some of what s broken has to do with the way congress does its business these days. a simple majority is no longer enough to get anything, even routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blamed. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i ask them to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public nominations receive a simple umor down vote within 90 days. the executive branch also needs to change. too often, it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i have asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction. that politics is about clinging to ridge