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Jason Kander

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 4, 1981

Everything I do in my political life is colored by my military service. It was the defining moment in my life and helped me develop the leadership skills that I still utilize.

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There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

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I got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.

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I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

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If we all work together, then we can save the American Dream from the nightmare that is Donald Trump.

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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

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The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.

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In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

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To me, leadership has always been about doing what's right. Because when you've had to write your blood type on your boots, you aren't afraid to make the right calls.

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I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.

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Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

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We have got to zero in on the fact that all of us, no matter where you live, want our kids' lives to be an upgrade over our own, and we would really like it if our kids could come back and live where we raised them.

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I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.

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I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.

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This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.

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I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

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For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

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Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.

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We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.

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We have to be willing to engage ISIS militarily, economically, and even on the Internet without delay. For instance, I think we waited too long to engage al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan. And we should not make a similar mistake with ISIS elements throughout the world.

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