* 2028 Perspective: “I think the Democratic primary is going to be the longest primary of our life. It’s hard to recall a field that is this wide open.”—Republican consultant Alex Conant.
* “(House Minority Leader) Hakeem Jeffries was chosen at a time when he was expected to be a peacetime leader, a coalition builder. He is not well suited to being a leader of the opposition—a wartime consigliere.”—Amanda Litman, the head of Run for Something, a group dedicated to getting young progressives elected.
* “When the court said pay the benefits, they didn’t say pay half a hamburger.”—Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on the Trump Administration’s plan to make partial food stamp payments.