David Smith

Governor Wes Moore: President Trump called Baltimore a hellhole. “I’ve learned that trying to fact check the president is an exhausting and completely fruitless exercise… Homicides in Baltimore are now down 58% since I was inaugurated.” He should come and see.

Booker: “This is not left or right. It’s right versus wrong. It’s America against big corporations that are making us sick… Food is medicine. It’s time to heal America for real.”

At Center for American Progress Ideas summit. Sen Cory Booker: “I say to my fellow Democrats, a movement called MAHA caught fire in the vacuum that we left behind… We need to talk about those moms and dads who are being betrayed by the current administration.”

This is the perfect tweet for illustrating how dumb it is for once non-MAGA Republicans to keep humiliating themselves sucking up to Trump like this in public... only for Trump to then endorse your opponent. Trump just endorsed Paxton over Cornyn in the Texas GOP Senate primary!

Vance: I’ve seen Democrats holding up ‘No Kings’ signs. “Then King Charles comes to the congressional chamber and they break out in rapturous applause.”

Vance: “Come on man, have a little objectivity in how you ask the question.”

Vance: “This really is chaos. You guys have got to behave yourselves.”

.@VP: "We’re not talking about pulling every single American troop out of Europe, we’re talking about shifting some resources around in a way that maximizes American security. I don’t think that’s bad for Europe. That’s encouraging Europe to take more ownership."

Vance on Iran war: “This is not going to be the sort of thing that lasts forever… This is not a forever war. We’re going to take care of business and then come home.”

Vance: “We’ve delivered great wins for the American people.” Tax cuts, investment, manufacturing jobs. “We are very aware that, because of what’s going on in the Middle East, gas prices have gone up.”

Vance on political violence: “It’s one of the most anti-Christian things, anti-American things you can do.”

Vance: “I reject the idea that we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.”

.@VP slams the Fake News: "There are people who objectively committed heinous crimes, but the American media and the American legal academy has decided that, even though they committed bad crimes, their sentence was 'disproportionate'... You know who never, ever gets an ounce of sympathy when it comes to that disproportionate sentencing? It's people who voted for Donald Trump, and participated in the January 6th protest."

Vance: “If the European media wants to attack the president of the United States they need to look in the mirror.”

Vance: “We have got to have more sovereignty and more of Europe standing on its own two feet.”

Vance: “There’s been no president, frankly, that has done more to ensure that Ukraine survives the invasion by Russia than Donald Trump… We want Europe to do more to protect its own territorial integrity… The United States cannot be the policeman of the world.”

Vance on mosque attack in San Diego: “That type of violence in the United States is reprehensible… Political violence in the United States is unacceptable.”

Vance: “I’m not a potential presidential candidate. I’m the vice president and I’m going to try and do my job.”

"I think you see that conflict; the fact that maybe the Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go. They also are just a fractured country," says @VP on negotiations. "We want to see not just the commitment to not have a nuclear weapon, but the commitment to work with us on a process to ensure that not just now—not just when Donald Trump is @POTUS—but years down the road, that the Iranians are not rebuilding that nuclear capability."

.@VP: "Iran can never have a nuclear weapon... Iran would really be the first domino in what would set off a nuclear arms race all over the world. That's very, very bad for the safety of our country."