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Ex-Clinton Pollster Meets with Trump

March 1, 2019 at 4:50 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Mark Penn, one of the primary architects of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, met briefly with President Trump in the Oval Office last week,” the New York Times reports.

“The face-to-face meeting, the first between Mr. Trump and a onetime loyal adviser to the Clintons, marked what some saw as the inevitable conclusion of Mr. Penn’s long-running political metamorphosis.”

“As Democrats have moved to the left, Mr. Penn, with his centrist politics, has become alienated from a party in which he once reigned as a winning pollster and is a frequent guest on Fox News and the author of op-ed articles criticizing the special counsel’s investigation as a ‘partisan, open-ended inquisition.’ He has even adopted the president’s term, ‘deep state,’ to describe people he views as Democratic operatives sabotaging the Trump administration from within the government.”

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