Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda, a U.S. Army veteran and Democratic state senator, ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. House seat in West Virginia in 2018. He has announced his interest in pursuing the presidency in 2020.
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The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”
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"One in eight American adults, or 12.7 percent of the U.S population, now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder."
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"75-100 folks (are) killed a month and over 200 wounded by senseless gun violence."
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The United States is "#1 in oil consumption" in the world.
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At General Motors, CEO Mary Barra "took home almost 22 MILLION DOLLARS last year alone (295x your company's average employee)."
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"We have lost more lives in the last two years" due to opioids "than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War."