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Wed Aug 10, 2016, 01:38 AM Aug 2016

103-Year-Old Woman Vows To Stay Alive Long Enough To Vote Against Donald Trump [View all]

In an interview published last Friday, a 103-year-old woman told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that she “must live” long enough to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Amanpour spoke to the woman, Ruline Steininger, who lives in Iowa, about Clinton’s candidacy. Steininger, who was born seven years before women even had the right to vote, campaigned for Clinton before the Iowa caucuses.

The Iowa caucus turned out such a close result between Clinton and Bernie Sanders that the voters Steininger may have swayed to the Clinton camp could have decided the election. You never know, and it certainly is possible.

Amanpour introduced Steininger’s dramatic lifespan.

“Imagine living through 2 World Wars, the Depression, a man on the moon, cures for polio and smallpox, 9/11, the first black American president, and the digital revolution,” she said. “That is the amazing 103-year lifespan of Ruline Steininger.”

“When I reached her at her care home,” Amanpour went on, “She told me that she’s desperate to stick around long enough for the first female American president.”

Video at link: http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/07/03/103-year-old-woman-vows-to-stay-alive-long-enough-to-vote-against-donald-trump-video/

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