Ours is a nation built upon a set of ideas — ideas not rooted in bloodlines and burial plots but in values and ideals. Anyone who doesn’t understand something so fundamental about the United States is unfit for high office.
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Perhaps no other politician is as shameless in his pretense of being for the working class. Here's the truth about J.D. Vance.
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