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DavidDvorkin

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9. I'd go back to the Goldwater nomination

Reply to BlueMTexpat (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 1, 2022, 12:18 PM

Jun 2022

After his landslide loss, his minions didn't give up. Instead, they went behind the scenes in the GOP. Everything that followed was the result of that.

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