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MH1

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4. How's that saying go?
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 08:53 AM
Sep 2016

"No one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public"?

I think Trump is trying to establish a corollary, "no one ever lost an election by overestimating the ugliness of the American public". And if he does somehow pull it out, it will indeed go a long way toward establishing that.

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