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• Obama cyber chief: You’d better believe I was ordered to stand down on Russia

  21-06-2018 23:21 via hotair.com
  
  Consider this a confirmation of an allegation that first emerged in March, because the co-author of the book that contained it certainly does. Michael Isikoff and David Corn published an explosive allegation that the Obama administration issued a stand-down order to efforts to counter Russian cyberwarfare in 2016. Yesterday, the head of the Obama administration’s cyber programs told the Senate Intelligence Committee that’s precisely what happened:
  The Obama White House’s chief
  
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• NY City Mayor turned away from detention center in Texas

  21-06-2018 22:41 via hotair.com
  
  Mayor Bill de Blasio flew to Texas today for a press conference with a group of other mayors at a detention center near the US-Mexico border. Other Mayors in attendance included LA’s Eric Garcetti and Seattle’s Jenny Durkan. When de Blasio approached the gate at the facility he was politely told by guards he would need to stay on his side of the fence.Watch: @NYCMayor turned away from children's facility in Texas https://t.co/dFXDZPw2TU pic.twitter.com/Ug7BFUQ5w6
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• Melania’s jacket: Unfortunate oversight or deliberate troll? Update: Refers to the media, says Trump

  21-06-2018 22:01 via hotair.com
  
  The chatterati are aflame about it this afternoon, including POTUS’s friends at CNN, even though it’s obviously just an unfortunate oversight.Daily Mail reports that Melania Trump boarded her plane to Texas wearing a jacket that said on the back, "I really don't care, do u?"https://t.co/SeNGeux5jB pic.twitter.com/owHqTAyPdO
  — Tim Mak (@timkmak) June 21, 2018The perfect thing to wear on a visit to a — lemme check my notes here … children’s shelter near the bor
  
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• Melania’s jacket: Unfortunate oversight or deliberate troll?

  21-06-2018 22:01 via hotair.com
  
  The chatterati are aflame about it this afternoon, including POTUS’s friends at CNN, even though it’s obviously just an unfortunate oversight.Daily Mail reports that Melania Trump boarded her plane to Texas wearing a jacket that said on the back, "I really don't care, do u?"https://t.co/SeNGeux5jB pic.twitter.com/owHqTAyPdO
  — Tim Mak (@timkmak) June 21, 2018The perfect thing to wear on a visit to a — lemme check my notes here … children’s shelter near the bor
  
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• The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: A New Web Site Presents the Contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern

  21-06-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a recent conversation with Julian Baggini on why there are so few women in academic philosophy, Mary Warnock notes that “of all the humanities departments in British universities, only philosophy departments have a mere 25% women members.” That number is even lower in the US. "Why should this be?" Warnock asks. She asserts that the problem may lie with the discipline itself. “I think that academic philosophy has become an extraordinarily inward-looking subject,” she s
  
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• SCOTUS: Get ready to pay sales tax on the Internet

  21-06-2018 21:22 via hotair.com
  
  State legislatures got an early Christmas gift today from the Supreme Court, but consumers might see the justices collectively as the Grinch. Overturning decades of precedent, a narrow 5-4 majority declared an end to the brick-and-mortar requirement of imposing sales taxes on internet purchases. The ruling also boosts traditional retail outlets by putting them on a fair playing field with giants such as Amazon:
  The justices broke with 50 years’ worth of legal rulings that barred the states
  
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• Today’s hot topics: Zero-tolerance off/on, media bias blowback, gov’t overhaul, SCOTUS sales taxes, and more

  21-06-2018 21:21 via hotair.com
  
  Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook.Join us as we welcome:Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson brings us up to date on the week’s top stories and gives us a preview of tomorrow’s Hugh Hewitt show. We’ll cover the latest on the immigration debate, including the question of wheth
  
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• What Makes Taxi Driver So Powerful? An In-Depth Study of Martin Scorsese’s Existential Film on the Human Condition

  21-06-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The field jacket, the mohawk, the "real rain" that will "wash all this scum off the streets," the virtuoso tracking shot over the aftermath of a massacre, "You talkin' to me?": so many elements of Taxi Driver have found permanent places in cinematic culture, and almost as many have found permanent places in the culture, period. Thanks to its wide-ranging influence as well as its presence that endures more than forty years on, even those who've never seen the movie in some sense al
  
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• The ACLU tip-toes away from an absolute defense of free speech

  21-06-2018 20:59 via hotair.com
  
  Yesterday the Wall Street Journal pointed out a leaked ACLU memo which outlines the organization’s revised stance toward taking cases involving the First Amendment. The 8-page case selection memo offers guidelines which contain plenty of nuance, but the bottom line is that the ACLU will now think about how First Amendment cases it takes might impact its other social justice priorities before taking them on. From the WSJ:
  The 2018 guidelines claim that “the ACLU is committed to d
  
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• Read a Huge Annotated Online Edition of Frankenstein: A Modern Way to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel

  21-06-2018 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Born out of evening reading of spooky stories on a rain-soaked holiday, Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein has resonated through the years into pop culture, a warning against science and technology, of how the thirst for knowledge can literally create monsters. If you’ve been binging Westworld or loved Ex Machina you are seeing Shelley’s legacy, both filled with scientific creations that question their own reason for existence.
  Just like those works are products of our era
  
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• New Archive of Middle Eastern Photography Features 9,000 Digitized Images

  21-06-2018 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  From Shamoon Zamir, a literature professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, comes a "research archive of historical and contemporary photography from the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)," designed to be  fully accessible to the public. We're told:
  Today, Akkasah: The Center for Photography at NYU Abu Dhabi boasts an archive of 62,000 images from the UAE and across the MENA region – of which 9,000 are already digitized and available online -- the only of its kind in the Middle East. These ima
  
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• Taschen Running a Big Warehouse Sale with Books Up To 75% Off (June 21-24)

  21-06-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  FYI: Taschen--the publisher of books on art, architecture, cinema, photography and design--is now running a major sale. Until June 24th, a large number of books will be 25% to 75% off. Rummage away...
   
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• WaPo: CBP suspending zero-tolerance enforcement, temporarily … at least; Update: Game back on?

  21-06-2018 20:01 via hotair.com
  
  Just last night, Donald Trump insisted that he could keep up his zero-tolerance enforcement of border laws while keeping children from being separated by Customs and Border Patrol. “They’re not sending their finest,” Trump told attendees at his Duluth, Minnesota rally. “We’re sending them the hell back. That’s what we’re doing.”
  Not anymore, at least at the moment:
  The dramatic about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an exec
  
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• So that’s why Ted Cruz scrambled to write a bill that ended child separation

  21-06-2018 19:31 via hotair.com
  
  Hoo boy. I figured the polling on Trump’s policy would be bad in Texas, being both a border state with a large Latino minority and a red state where his job approval hasn’t traditionally been sky high.
  I didn’t think it’d be this bad.
  Note that the Texas Tribune’s poll of the state was conducted from June 8-15. The national media uproar didn’t really get rolling until this week, *after* the poll was finished. If you re-polled today, after days of brutal covera
  
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• Young immigrants allege abuse at detention center (which started during the Obama administration)

  21-06-2018 19:01 via hotair.com
  
  Ed mentioned this in an update but it deserves your full attention. The Associated Press ran a story today about allegations of abuse against young immigrants. The allegations highlighted in paragraphs 2-4 of the story are shocking:
  Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.
  “Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me,” said a Honduran immigrant who was sen
  
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• AP: Young immigrants allege abuse at detention center (which started during the Obama administration)

  21-06-2018 19:01 via hotair.com
  
  Ed mentioned this in an update but it deserves your full attention. The Associated Press ran a story today about allegations of abuse against young immigrants. The allegations highlighted in paragraphs 2-4 of the story are shocking:
  Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.
  “Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me,” said a Honduran immigrant who was sen
  
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• STOP Soros law passes in Hungary

  21-06-2018 18:31 via hotair.com
  
  Over a month ago we learned that the nation of Hungary had effectively driven all of the NGOs operated by billionaire George Soros out of their country. The current government isn’t exactly composed of big fans of Soros’ efforts to liberalize the country, particularly in terms of its immigration policy. At the same time, Prime Minister Viktor Orban was working with the legislature to formalize the arrangement while running for reelection. That effort has now come to fruition with the
  
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• CNN to Dem senator: Did you object when Obama kept unaccompanied illegal kids in cages?

  21-06-2018 18:01 via hotair.com
  
  A leftover from yesterday that’s not to be missed, especially if you’ve read Ed’s last post. Baldwin’s response here is basically Billy Madison talking about the industrial revolution.CRINGE:Watch Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) avoid answering whether or not she was outraged about immigrant families being torn apart under Obama…No hypocrisy to be seen here people… move along. pic.twitter.com/l7ZbMPIB3Y
  — Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) June 20, 2018Ed also not
  
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• McClatchy fact-check: Obama stuck kids in tent cities, too, you know

  21-06-2018 17:21 via hotair.com
  
  Did Donald Trump originate the practice of separating children from their families after being apprehending for illegal entry into the country? From the hysteria that has prevailed in the media and among Democrats over the past week, one would think that Trump personally dreamed up the practice himself while twisting his moustache and laughing maniacally while puffing a big cigar.
  By this time, most readers here already know that the practice actually began well before Trump won his election, an
  
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• The latest ICE raid in Ohio was a big one

  21-06-2018 16:41 via hotair.com
  
  If the people protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or even trying to Doxx them thought they were having any impact on the agency’s agenda, those hopes have probably been dashed. ICE is still keeping busy, this time out in the Buckeye State. A raid in Ohio recently saw agents visiting a meatpacking plant where the management mysteriously seems to have not noticed that they literally had more than 100 illegal aliens working there, most of them from Guatemala. After being brie
  
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• Hmmm: Tabloid publisher subpoenaed in Cohen case over payment to Trump accuser

  21-06-2018 16:01 via hotair.com
  
  Special counsel Robert Mueller might not have had enough interest in Michael Cohen to keep the case within his purview, but that doesn’t mean his prosecutors aren’t interested in his connections to Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported overnight that they have subpoenaed America Media about their six-figure payment to a woman who allegedly had an affair with Trump. Are they turning the screws on Cohen, on Trump, or on the National Enquirer? Inquiring minds want to know:
  
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• Kim Jong-un plus China may equal trouble

  21-06-2018 15:21 via hotair.com
  
  After years of being essentially a hermit holed up in his palaces, North Korean despot Kim Jong-un is turning into something of an international tourist. After finishing up his meetings with President Trump in Singapore, Kim headed to China for official state visits with Xi Jinping. Given their two nations’ close relations in the past, this probably shouldn’t come as too much of a shock, but their friendly meeting could spell serious problems for American efforts to drag North Korea
  
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• Uh oh: Sara Netanyahu charged in corruption probe

  21-06-2018 14:41 via hotair.com
  
  One shoe finally dropped in long-running corruption probes focusing on the Israeli prime minister and his wife. After an attempt at a settlement collapsed, prosecutors charged Sara Netanyahu with fraud and breach of trust in what has become known as the “Prepared Food Affair.” What does that mean for Benjamin Netanyahu and his suddenly-close relationship with the US?
  Israeli prosecutors have charged Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife, with a series of crimes including fr
  
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• Trump’s judicial nominees now under threat from… who?

  21-06-2018 14:01 via hotair.com
  
  President Trump has now energized voters in both parties to levels not seen in decades as the midterm elections approach. On the GOP side, voter enthusiasm even exceeds the levels reported before the red wave of 2010, and one of the main reasons Republican voters cite is the progress being made on judicial appointments. When it was announced that Congress would need to hang around for most of the August recess and continue working, processing nominations was a key factor in that decision.
  But no
  
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• For VA Whistleblowers, A Culture Of Fear And Retaliation - WRVO Public Media

  21-06-2018 11:27 via wrvo.org
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  For VA Whistleblowers, A Culture Of Fear And Retaliation
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  Alan Hyde is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System. He served in Operation Desert Storm, where he suffered an in-service leg injury. But it's his time with the Central Alabama VA, he says, that has left ...
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• How Trump's Dangerous and Misguided Trade War Could Reshape the American Diet

  21-06-2018 08:30
  Tariffs on imports and exports could lead to increased food prices.During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made his protectionist views clear, saying that, if elected, he would renegotiate trade deals. He slammed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as "the worst trade deal the U.S. has ever signed." He also criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying it was "the death blow for American manufacturing" and that it "put[s] the interests of foreign countries above
  
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• MIPAD Unveils Media & Culture Class Of 2018 Finalists - Africa.com

  21-06-2018 06:50 via africa.com
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  MIPAD Unveils Media & Culture Class Of 2018 Finalists
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  The executive team, honorees and partners of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD), will unveil the 3rd category (Media & Culture) of the MIPAD global 100 Class of 2018 on June 23rd, recognising excellence in people of African descent ...
  
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• All in: Mike Bloomberg to dump $80 million to try to buy the House for Democrats

  21-06-2018 04:41 via hotair.com
  
  Bad day for the infant-jail party. Good day for the third-trimester-abortion party.
  Bloomberg’s been weighing a run for president for at least 10 years but he keeps running into the same problem. He can’t get nominated by either side and if he runs as an independent he could end up pulling more votes from the Democrat than the Republican, producing his least favored outcome on election night. With today’s news he seems to have found an outlet for his ambitions: Shower congressi
  
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• 'A Complete Farce': Military Lawyers Will Reportedly Go to the Border to Prosecute Immigrant Parents

  21-06-2018 04:32
  Rachel Maddow first reported the move, which she said was likely unprecedented. In a startling move, the U.S. military will send judge advocates general (JAGs) to the border to help manage the flow of families detained by President Donald Trump's administration, according to a report from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Wednesday.But they won't be there to provide assistance with their asylum claims or to help manage their legal cases — they will be acting as special assistant U.S. attorneys to pros
  
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• Culture Media Market Latest Trends, Demand and Analysis 2025 - Digital Journal

  21-06-2018 04:26 via digitaljournal.com
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  Culture Media Market Latest Trends, Demand and Analysis 2025
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  This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire. Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/20/2018 -- Global Culture Media Market: Snapshot. The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the rising demand for an indication-specific line of treatment is ...
  Cell Culture Media Market will grow at 8.2% CAGR to exceed USD 1394 Million by 2026Paris Ledger
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• Trump: House Republicans totally applauded and laughed when I made fun of Mark Sanford at our meeting

  21-06-2018 04:01 via hotair.com
  
  No they didn’t, and logic would tell you that even if eyewitnesses who were in the room didn’t. It’s deeply weird that he would mock a political opponent whose career he’d ended in front of his colleagues; that might have been considered poor form even if Sanford were a member of the other party. It’s even weirder that he’d double down on the error in judgment by acknowledging publicly that he did it and insisting that the reaction was positive when there were
  
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• 'That's Pretty Pathetic': Bernie Sanders Tears into Trump for Acting Tough on 'Little Children' to Get Votes

  21-06-2018 03:30
  The Vermont senator said the president's actions echoed the approach of "authoritarian types" in Europe.As the White House scrambles to fix a crisis of its own making, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday night lambasted President Donald Trump's policy of breaking apart immigrant families as a "pathetic" attempt to please his voters."He created the crisis. He could end the crisis," Sanders said on CNN. "He sees from his political perspective that being anti-immigrant is a winner for him polit
  
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• The Stanford Prison Experiment: A lie that won’t die

  21-06-2018 03:21 via hotair.com
  
  You’ve probably heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment from a textbook, a documentary, or maybe you even saw the 2015 feature film of the same name. If not, this was an experiment carried out in 1971 by Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. The idea was to hire students to act as either prisoners or guards for two weeks to see how they would react to the experience. But after just six days, the experiment was ended. The student guards had immediately become vicious authorita
  
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• Trump not making the sale on House immigration bills?

  21-06-2018 02:41 via hotair.com
  
  The other bills, that is, not the stopgap effort announced by Paul Ryan and backed by the White House earlier today. The efforts to pass a significant immigration reform effort just four months ahead of a midterm election appear to be foundering, a number of media outlets report. Despite his reversal and strong support for either bill under consideration in the House, Donald Trump’s not making a sale even among Republicans:
  President Donald Trump told House Republicans to send him an
  
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• White House Plan Would Do Away with an Independent Department of Education: Report

  21-06-2018 02:30
  Betsy Devos may be out of a job if the plan goes through. A new plan from the White House would merge the Department of Education with the Department of Labor, according to a Wall Street Journal report, accomplishing a long-time conservative goal of trimming down the federal government.The plan has not yet been officially announced, but the Journal reports that the decision will be announced Thursday.However, the White House can't implement such a plan on its own. It needs Congress to pass legis
  
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• Kamala Harris: Detaining illegal families together is also unacceptable

  21-06-2018 02:01 via hotair.com
  
  Child separation was bad policy but ultimately a red herring. It’s always been about open borders.This Executive Order doesn’t fix the crisis. Indefinitely detaining children with their families in camps is inhumane and will not make us safe.
  — Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) June 20, 2018How soft do you have to be on immigration to piss off Marco Rubio? Now we know:The ink isn’t even dry on the new executive order ending separation policy & some Democrats already ar
  
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• Tesla sues ex-employee over alleged sabotage

  21-06-2018 01:21 via hotair.com
  
  As you probably know already, Tesla has been struggling to meet orders on its Model 3 sedan. Late Sunday night, founder Elon Musk sent an email to employees stating that he had identified one problem contributing to that difficulty: An employee had been sabotaging equipment. From Reuters:
  Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday in an email to staff that an unnamed Tesla employee had conducted “extensive and damaging sabotage” to the company’s operations including all
  
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• The Honored Dead come home

  21-06-2018 00:41 via hotair.com
  
  Despite the criticism coming from various quarters over President Trump’s visit with Kim Jong-un, there was one item of positive news which I certainly hope nobody could argue with. North Korea agreed to begin returning the remains of the Honored Dead of the United States, missing for nearly 70 years, so they can be placed alongside their fellow heroes in a place of honor. Yesterday, one of the first cases of that promise being fulfilled took place at Arlington Cemetery. It was announced o
  
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• Here Are 5 Major Problems with Trump's Executive Order Supposedly Stopping Family Separations

  21-06-2018 00:30
  Trump change his tune under pressure, but will it make any real difference? President Donald Trump presented the executive order he signed Wednesday as a solution to the problem of widespread separations of immigrant families — a problem he created — but it's unclear what effects the order will actually have.Many experts believe, in fact, that the new order simply creates more problems."Lawyers I've spoken to say @POTUS exec order is a total disaster," tweeted Daily Caller White Hous
  
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• Minnesota Dreamin’: Trump stakes claim on state with longest Dem winning streak

  21-06-2018 00:01 via hotair.com
  
  Can Donald Trump strike gold in the Land of 10,000 Lakes? The president will lead a rally in Duluth later this evening, the first Trump rally in a state he lost since the 2016 election. He didn’t lose by much, though, coming within 45,000 votes of Hillary Clinton in a state that last went Republican when Richard Nixon ran for re-election nearly fifty years ago. Politico reports that Trump thinks he made a mistake for not trying harder in Minnesota two years ago:
  The last Republican preside
  
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