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Inside Trump’s Debate Clean Up

September 30, 2020 at 5:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump’s advisers feel the president needs to outright condemn far-right extremists and white supremacy during his rally tonight in Minnesota,” Axios reports.

“The Trump campaign’s view is that he was ambushed by the question and that the president doesn’t even know who the Proud Boys are.”

“Trump’s advisers are also planning to encourage the president to interrupt Joe Biden less in the next two debates.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

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