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Trump rambles about ‘distinguished people’ who ‘hate’ darkness in scramble for GOP win
What happened
RawStory reports that President Donald Trump pressed Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas to support legislation making daylight saving time permanent, casting the bill as a political victory Republicans needed ahead of the midterms. Cotton said he would oppose it because Arkansans did not want children traveling to school “in the pitch dark.”
Trump answered by attacking Cotton’s ego and electoral support. He also cited unnamed “very distinguished people” who supposedly hated returning home after dark, then linked evening darkness to danger in what he called “Crime Ridden Blue States.”…
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