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86: Jeremy Peters Traces the GOP’s Descent to Trump

The Al Franken Podcast

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Sean Hannity, I'm a Republican and I Don't Think He's Going to Be Successful Unless I Just Spread Lies and Poison

He has so bullied these Republican senators. They're so afraid of what will happen to them if he starts taunting them because they've seen it happen to their colleagues. I mean, some of your former colleagues, whether it's Jeff Flake or Bob Corker, these guys that he ran out of office because he started antagonizing them. And that speaks to the cultural change in the Republican Party, or at least the acceptance now of this... maybe it's not a change at all but it's just that they're willing to do it in the open.

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