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Mark Kelly: “If I could win this Senate seat In Arizona, John McCain…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

LIVE: Senator Mark Kelly holds town hall in Tucson, AZ

Published December 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 18:40

But if I could win this Senate seat In Arizona, John McCain Senate seat, a guy I looked up to when I was younger, like the epitome of service to our country, If I could win this Senate seat In Arizona, John McCain Senate seat, [...] we could take over the Senate if Donald Trump is back in the White House. And then Donald Trump gave us a gift. He lost. And I thought this guy was going to the dustbin of history. But that didn't happen. And now he's back. (18:40–18:58)

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Asserts that winning the Arizona Senate seat could help Democrats take over the Senate.

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“In Georgia, where you can't bring somebody water if they're standing in line for hours.”
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“In some states you can only vote by mail by the way, Oregon and Colorado I think now.”
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“In 2020, we're coming up to the end of the first Trump presidency.”
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“I've seen Donald Trump send a mob up to Capitol Hill, didn't like the outcome of the 2020 election.”
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“I've got to serve in the Navy for 25 years, flying off of an aircraft carrier.”
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“I got to be a test pilot and then an astronaut flying into space four times.”
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“The stuff we do in the Senate affects millions and millions of Americans every single year.”
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“I am just trying to deliver for Arizonans and the American people.”
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“Deliver on things that matter to them, like having a good job and being able to put groceries on the table and being able to afford health…”
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“It is not normal to have a President of the United States saying, we're just going to kill people.”
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“Bigger generals and admirals in the audience running around saying warrior ethos and lethality, and we're going to hunt and kill people.”
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“Telling service members, you have to comply with the law. You know, we said, don't follow illegal orders.”
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“The president said I should die because of what I said, because I said something that was true.”
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“This is about the First Amendment rights and the right of free speech for every single American.”
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“He thinks he can intimidate members of Congress. He thinks he can shut us up.”
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“Jobs are down. Wages are flat, costs are up, and this president is asleep.”
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“He's doing nothing to try to help people with the cost groceries and rent and health care.”
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“During that government shutdown, I was in Washington trying to get the government open back up and fix this problem with spiking premiums…”
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“At every opportunity, every single time, he [Juan Siskamani] votes with his leadership, he votes with Donald Trump and he votes against…”
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“The number of death threats that I've received have gone up exponentially, and they continue.”
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“We're going to have to undo a lot of the rules and procedures and policies that this administration has put in place.”
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“We also get, when we win back the House and maybe even the Senate, we get the subpoena power.”
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“Including the stuff that his family's doing to just enrich themselves because of his position as president.”
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“If they lose this, the help with their premiums that they've been receiving under the Affordable Care Act, they're not going to be able to…”
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“In 2026, they're kicking all these people off of Medicaid, you know, poor people who just, you know, people that can't afford health…”
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“When Republicans are in charge of Congress and the White House, they pass policies that help rich people get richer.”
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“The Department of Education is taking that path away from so many Americans. This includes people that are going to go into jobs like…”
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“When this president got into office, he made it exceedingly hard to permit solar and wind projects.”
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“He wants to start adding coal power plants.”
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“China is going to be the leaders on this to our detriment.”
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“We have the world's biggest economy.”
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“Here in the desert, we don't have a lot of water.”
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“I just put out a white paper on this called AI for America.”
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“The president, people around him, Republicans, maybe not all of them, but probably most of them, realize that when fewer people vote, they…”
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“When they got into office, it didn't take them long for Elon Musk to put together his band of doge Bros and run rampant through the federal…”
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