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Nov 2 · On the eve of the midterms, President Trump gives his final scheduled remarks at the reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, jokes about renaming it the Trump Reflecting Pool and calls the Democratic slate the most extreme in American history
C-SPAN: President Trump gives remarks day before midterm election: "The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history...there's never been anything like what we're seeing."
Grade A (100/100). Trump on the last day before the midterms calls the Democratic slate the most extreme and dangerous in American history and lists what he calls their radical agenda
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Splits: Trump on the last day before the midterms calls the Democratic slate the most extreme and dangerous in American history and lists what he calls their radical agenda
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