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Tim Miller, David Leonhardt & Rachel Hunt

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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Trump's Ideological Obsession With LGBTQ People

In 16, when I was doing the anti-Trump super PAC, the thing that really surprised and disappointed me that I didn't see coming was that Trump did extremely well with the least conservative Republicans in the primary. He ended up kind of having this strange coalition of like super conservative people, you know, going there on the Muslim ban and things like that. And then super moderate Republicans, working class moderate non church going Republicans who liked that he wasn't like a Ted Cruz. That is why in a weird way, to Santas is super far right policies in the legislature. But they're actually hurting him with that more moderate group who stayed in the Republican party who like Trump and don't

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