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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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John Robert Lewis
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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious it's almost sacred.
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I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.
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The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.
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