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demigoddess

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12. they showed us in all those elections where they would run as a democrat

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 13, 2020, 02:34 PM

Dec 2020

and then immediately after they won the election they would switch to the republican party right before being sworn into the Congress. Can't remember exact names or states but it happened several times.

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Very interesting. CrispyQ Dec 2020 #2

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