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Employing a low-key, Midwestern charisma, Mike Pence proved he knows how to win over an audience.
Mercedes Schlapp
Win
Charisma
He
Over
Employing
Knows
Audience
How
Proved
Midwestern
Low-Key
Mike
Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.
Mercedes Schlapp
Country
Become
Other
Side
Our
Destroy
Attempts
Polarized
Discredit
Politically
Unfortunately
We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.
Mercedes Schlapp
Experience
Fear
States
Intimidation
Retaliation
Should
United
United States
The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.
Mercedes Schlapp
Government
Job
Press
Freely
Institution
Accountable
Report
Hold
Information
Defend
Gather
Thousands of children entering the country illegally have become the face of the immigration crisis in the U.S.
Mercedes Schlapp
Immigration
Face
Country
Become
Crisis
Entering
Thousands
Children
Allowing flexibility to local school districts to set their own nutritional standards and having parents involved in the process is a win-win for the students.
Mercedes Schlapp
School
Parents
Own
Local
Local School
Nutritional
Win-Win
Districts
Having
Students
Allowing
School Districts
Involved
Process
Flexibility
Standards
Set
As a working mother of a large family, preparing meals and shopping for groceries is time consuming and hard work.
Mercedes Schlapp
Work
Hard Work
Time
Family
Shopping
Mother
Consuming
Time-Consuming
Meals
Groceries
Working
Hard
Large
Large Family
Preparing
With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.
Mercedes Schlapp
Religion
Welfare
Problems
Poverty
Important
Increasing
States
Religious
Important Role
Role
Dependency
Organizations
United
United States
Play
Societal
Violence
Roe v. Wade used raw judicial power to overturn the democratically passed laws in every state in the country and remove state restrictions on abortion.
Mercedes Schlapp
Abortion
Power
Country
Remove
Every
State
Laws
Restrictions
Raw
Democratically
Judicial
Wade
Passed
Overturn
Roe
Used
Every woman should have access to quality health care and compassionate abortion alternatives.
Mercedes Schlapp
Health
Woman
Quality
Abortion
Care
Every
Quality Health Care
Health Care
Alternatives
Access
Should
Compassionate
Americans hate traffic jams and also dislike power-hungry political figures.
Mercedes Schlapp
Hate
Political
Also
Traffic
American
Dislike
Figures
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.
Mercedes Schlapp
Values
Free
Free Speech
Society
Diminished
Backward
Religious
Having
Mentality
Becoming
Traditional
Traditional Values
Being
Where
Viewed
Speech
We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.
Mercedes Schlapp
Great
Legal
Immigration
Country
Nation
Recognizing
Immigrants
Great Nation
Built
Encouraging
Legal Immigration
Should
Who
Legal immigrants deserve respect for following the laws of our nation and completing the process. This is not an extreme concept. It is a matter of simply protecting our nation's sovereignty and knowing who is coming into our nation.
Mercedes Schlapp
Respect
Legal
Matter
Nation
Our
Extreme
Completing
Immigrants
Following
Laws
Simply
Concept
Knowing
Protecting
Coming
Sovereignty
Process
Who
Deserve
I am a working mom with five daughters, a small-business owner - and a conservative.
Mercedes Schlapp
Mom
Conservative
Daughters
Am
Five
Owner
Working
Many social conservatives want to encourage married couples to have children, and it is becoming increasingly difficult if the couple feels strapped and concerned with being penalized by their employer for having children.
Mercedes Schlapp
Difficult
Increasingly
Conservatives
Penalized
Married
Married Couples
Having
Having Children
Feels
Employer
Couple
Concerned
Couples
Becoming
Encourage
Being
Children
Want
Social
Strapped
Many
Politicians need to stop picking sides and come up with bold solutions where the safety and security of all citizens become a priority.
Mercedes Schlapp
Safety
Become
Politicians
Sides
Security
Citizens
Solutions
Picking
Come
Priority
Up
Stop
Where
Bold
Need
While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match the economy's needs.
Mercedes Schlapp
Needs
Our
Immigrants
Economy
Attracting
Greater
Match
Priority
Place
While
Placed
History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.
Mercedes Schlapp
History
Election
Defeat
President
Incumbent
General
General Election
Almost
Primary
Leads
Inevitably
Shown
Challenging
Pat Buchanan's challenge to George H.W. Bush in 1992 helped elect Democrat Jimmy Carter.
Mercedes Schlapp
Challenge
Jimmy
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Democrat
George
Pat
Bush
Elect
Helped
A campaign adviser can change the outside appearance of the candidate, but the ideology and personality of the candidate remains the same.
Mercedes Schlapp
Change
Personality
Ideology
Remains
Outside
Adviser
Campaign
Same
Candidate
Appearance
I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.
Mercedes Schlapp
Man
Minority
Community
President
President Trump
Focused
He
Policies
Years
Trump
Worked
Whose
Compassionate
Two
The majority of immigrants are in search of a better life for their families or are seeking safety by leaving violent and corrupt countries.
Mercedes Schlapp
Life
Better
Safety
Immigrants
Corrupt
Seeking
Better Life
Countries
Majority
Leaving
Families
Search
Violent
Is Trump correct that we should stop the flow of illegal immigrants? Yes, but again, words matter, and there is a way to engage voters on this issue without creating fear and insulting many hard-working Hispanics who love this country.
Mercedes Schlapp
Love
Words
Fear
Matter
Country
Way
Correct
Immigrants
Voters
Without
Insulting
Issue
Hispanics
Trump
Yes
Stop
Again
Creating
Should
Engage
Illegal
Who
Illegal Immigrants
Many
Hard-Working
Flow
We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.
Michael Chertoff
Intelligence
Guard
Security
Fact
Sharing
Like
Well
Parts
Were
Very
Department
Done
In Fact
Worked
Certain
Coast
Coast Guard
Katrina
Elements
But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.
Michael Chertoff
Time
Challenges
Criticism
Constructive Criticism
Build
Before
Think
Address
Say
Hurricane
Constructive
Take
Bottom
Bottom Line
Toward
Days
Line
Lot
Next
Use
Now
Season
Waste
Away
Right
Start
Set
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