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lees1975

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3. He will always be the guy who got to the verge of being a great leader, and shrank back.

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Sat Sep 16, 2023, 11:58 PM

Sep 2023

He had a chance to rise to the occasion, to set aside partisan division and set a new example, if not of bipartisan greatness and political innovation, at least to help get it started and he took that step on two notable occasions that will mark his legacy as the Republican who recognized Trump for the phony, fraudulent con artist that he is.

I had hoped for more. He just didn't have it in him to take the short step from where he was to where he could have been.

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