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Another Bonus Quote of the Day

July 11, 2019 at 11:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“OK, Trump voters are not idiots. We don’t need to give America a moral education; they know that he’s an asshole. They get it. They’ve just baked that in,”

— Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), quoted by Politico.

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