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20. It wasn't that much of a problem for his re-election chances when large metropolitan coastal areas

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2020, 08:08 PM

May 2020

in blue states were the hardest hit, but now that it's spreading into red, rural areas deep in America's heartland, where Trump's voting base lives, he has to hide the facts. Trump realized this will turn enough of his followers against him, so he did the only thing he knows: lie, stonewall and obstruct.

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