In Florida on Friday, Trump said: “We’re not supposed to have a socialist — look we're not going to be a socialist nation. We're not going to have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president, we’re not gonna have it, we’re not gonna put up with it.”
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- August 29, 2016How grass-roots organizing and economic angst is making the "S" word a political winner.
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