Emanuel's Complex Political Identity

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“For over a year, Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has known that Congressman Tom Foley, excuse me, Mark Foley, of Florida, Republican, has been engaged in inappropriate sexual advances to young male pages.”

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“Rather than doing what should have been done, which is there's a thing called the House Page Committee, equal number of Republicans and Democrats, their job is to basically be the guardians of the pages. Rather than going to the Page Committee, Emmanuel kept this in his back pocket until the right moment, and six weeks before the election, he popped it out by feeding it to ABC News.”

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“Read the article. He does call out DSA, but not because of the positions they hold. He's not saying, wait, this isn't the Democratic Party. We celebrate capitalism. We celebrate the free market. We're not totalitarian. We're not Marxists. No, Rahm Emanuel doesn't say anything like that in his op-ed.”

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“the biggest factor is this socialist momentum. Listen, we recruited a bunch of candidates that took national security the cultural issues off the table and made it about prosecuting always uh george bush and the corruption around the administration in a very unpopular war here the distraction from the democratic socialists actually adds a weight and the party doesn't have a deep bench of support”

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“Rahm Emanuel was just asked about the trans issue in a very interesting exchange with David Remnick of the New Yorker. And Rahm Emanuel was pretty explicit with me saying he does not want to see men in women's sports and he doesn't believe a man can become a woman, which is crazy stuff to say for a Democrat who's probably running for president.”

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“I think he's coming from a place of what he calls tough love. But I think he misdiagnoses the problem in that what he's saying is that if Israel can show a path to a two-state solution... then Israel will find that its isolation in elements and pockets of the West will diminish and go away.”

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“For too long, American policy towards Israel operated under the assumption that the best thing Washington did do for Jerusalem is to blindly, to silently stand behind your government without conditions, without demands, without consequences, even when we disagreed.”

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“Rahm Emanuel this past week, who argued in Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war with Gaza has left Israel increasingly isolated and facing what he called the prospect of perpetual occupation.”

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“if Rahm Emanuel, for example, who went over to Tel Aviv just to lecture the Israelis, who have now been undergoing three years of continuous warfare, he went to lecture them on how bad and terrible they are.”

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“even somebody like Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama chief of staff, who's clearly going to run for president announced earlier this week that he's going to give a speech about how the U.S. should stop giving military aid to Israel.”

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“Rahm Emanuel, who's former this and former that, and he thinks he's going to run for president of the United States. He doesn't realize that his Democratic Party wouldn't choose a Jewish man because it's anti-Semitic party.”

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“The tiny dancer of the former mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, to those unfamiliar with the nickname I popularist. He writes in the Wall Street Journal about energy, because he is trying to present himself as some sort of practical, moderate-type, new Democrat.”