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3 Oct 2016 15:10

If we didn't have Sarah Palin, would we have Donald Trump? President Obama isn't so sure. In an interview published Monday in New York, Obama eplained he sees a "straight line" from when Sarah Palin became John McCain's vice-presidential nominee in 2008 to Trump's surprise success in 2016: I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center...
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