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In Phoenix, Trump spent a long rally rearguing Charlottesville, attacking the press, and insisting he had been treated unfairly. The performance only reinforced the original problem: he still could not give a clean, convincing account of his response to white supremacist violence.
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In Phoenix, Trump spent a long rally rearguing Charlottesville, attacking the press, and insisting he had been treated unfairly. The performance only reinforced the original problem: he still could not give a clean, convincing account of his response to white supremacist violence.
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