Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Portola AS | Judge: Nathan Russell
Shane Goldmacher 7/17. Reporter, New York Times, "Democrats See Edge in Early Senate Map as Trump Casts Big Shadow," The New York Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/politics/midterm-elections.html, RJP, DebateDrills.
Six months into the Biden administration, Senate Democrats are expressing a cautious optimism that
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through President Biden's expansive agenda on the economy, the pandemic and infrastructure.
Cynthia Hicks 21. Director of Public Affairs at PhRMA focusing on polling and opinion research that supports advocacy communications and strategy. "New polling shows Americans are sounding the alarm on the TRIPS IP waiver," PhRMA, May 14, 2021, https://catalyst.phrma.org/new-polling-shows-americans-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-trips-ip-waiver, RJP, DebateDrills
*NOTE – the stuff after "include the following" is a picture that
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– expressed by more than six in ten voters – include the following:
Sarah Mucha 21. Politics reporter at Axios, covering the Biden administration and Congress. "Parties pounce on China as midterm issue," Axios, June 23, 2021, https://www.axios.com/democrat-republicans-china-2022-midterms-6c242c54-b51b-444e-b9b2-65ff0afb906a.html, RJP, DebateDrills
Democrats and Republicans in purple states are already leaning into U.S. competition
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by (President) Xi (Jinping) and the Chinese Communist Party.
Morton Kondracke 21. Retired executive editor of Roll Call, a former "McLaughlin Group" and Fox News commentator and co-author, with Fred Barnes, of Jack Kemp: The Bleeding Heart Conservative Who Changed America. "Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022," RealClearPolitics, August 4, 2021, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/04/why_democrats_must_retain_control_of_congress_in_2022_146189.html, RJP, DebateDrills
The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried,
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for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril.
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Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, former World Chess Champion, "Democracy and Human Rights: The Case for U.S. Leadership," Testimony Before The Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 16th, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021617_Kasparov_20Testimony.pdf
As one of the countless millions of people who were freed or protected from totalitarianism
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having the exceptional courage to always try to be better. Thank you.