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Trump is playing to his base in red-state campaign swing. But he’s often been dismissive of those voters

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It’s been more than 10 years since President Donald Trump quipped that, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

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