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biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. thanks for sharing your sunday morning. three big questions as we countdown to one week of the second presidential debate, two days until the vice president running mates. does donald trump have no choice to release his tax returns. 1990s tax returns obtained by the "new york times" shows nearly 1 billion in losses in one year and possibility he could have avoided paying federal taxes for nearly two decades. >> you have paid federal taxes. >> of course. >> question two, what, if anything, can trump do to recover from a horrible stretch that cluds overnight tweets about sex tapes, his questions about women and his judgment and temperment. >> hillary clinton's only loyalty is to her financial cntributors and to herself. i don't think she's loyal to

bill you want to know the truth. and really, folks, really, why should she be, right? >> and question three, will hillary clinton return the favor? she got a bounce out of debate one. but her take on bernie sanders supporters there's plenty of time for missteps and momentum swings. >> and on the other side there's a deep desire to believe we can have free college, free health care, that what we've done hasn't gone far enough and we just need to go as far as scandinavia, whatever that means. >> whatever that means. let's share the shorting and their insights. >> donald trump's chances for becoming president may hang in the balance. for starters, there's no excuse for any candidate for president not to release his or her tax

returns. now we have a glimpse into what donald trump might not want you to know. "new york times" obtained some of trump's 1995 taxes. in one year trump claimed more than $916 million in losses. his casinos were losing money. his airline was a flyer. he made some bad real estate buys. the way trump takes advantage of tax loopholes could have avoided him paying federal taxes for 18 years. remember this is what he told cnn dana bash after. >> it sounds like you admitted that you hadn't paid federal taxes and that that was smart. is that what you meant to say? >> i didn't say that at all. i will say this, i hate the way our government spend our taxes. >> what now? what now? donald trump is up early this morning tweeting about this

story. he said at 7:22 i know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has run for president and i'm the only one to fix that. does not give us any more information. doesn't say the times account is right. you know this was a debate a week from now and between now and then the vice presidential debate. the pressure on trump to show us more will be huge. >> he was very unlikely to release his tax returns at all had this not come out. i actually kind of think it makes it harder for him because right now there's an insinuation he didn't pay taxes for 18 years. it's likely to show he didn't or potentially worse. he's in a bind right now and they are doing, i think, probably the best they can by spinning it a case of him doing what's legally allowed to him. but i think voters will look at the situation and ask

themselves, dallas$900 million losses. >> it goes to the heart of the attack of donald trump and the centerpiece of his campaign that he's a good businessman. the clinton campaign is seizing on that. he lost a billion in one year it undermines his entire candidacy. tax questions aside, which they are not denying he may not have paid taxes for this long. they are not confirm organize denying. if this was wrong you would assume they would be furiously denying this account. the biggest issue is on the business record. >> he talks about it. it was a "the washington post" story last week after the debate from north carolina where donald trump bragged about not paying taxes because he was smart. there was a gasp in the room. people look at that and look at their balance sheets and makes

him look less relatable. >> there's a record of trump, you know, just a year ago he tweeted about how hedge fund managers pay almost nothing on their taxes and they need to be held to account. so trump now we know, was not paying taxes for a long period of time. i gee. i think the business record is another thing that the clinton campaign will seize upon. a billion dollars is the gdp of some small countries. trump said he lost that amount in 1995 and that's going to be a huge issue for him going forward. >> the little guy is his base of support. the white working class is the base of his support and look at this, look there's no indication donald trump did anything illegal. he took advantage of carry over loss. there's all these things set up. they have lobbyists to help them for rich real estate investments so they can write things off. if you're the little guy you don't get to keep your private jet or penthouse or lifestyle of

the rich and famous if you're having a bad year. that's one of the openings. hillary clinton know from the republican primaries and she did in the first debate that's what gets under his skin. now the gig super. why not release his tax return to show how smart he is. they are trying to poke him. >> he's not going to release his tax returns and that's one reason why. there's a lot of ammunition there. he rather take the hit from shielding the release and not being transparent than providing more information that could lead to damaging revelations. >> interesting math here where 18 years would expire in 2013. mitt romney released two years of his taxes. if donald trump is going to follow mitt romney's model he would release 2014 and 2015 when this tax advantage he took advantage of 18 years would have expired. i think trump, there's going to be increasing pressure on him to show us some of those tax returns. >> the original reaction from

the campaign the "new york times" had this story, "new york times" has been work on this story for a bit. the delicious part of it they said they were mailed of his state tax returns and the state address was trump tower. somebody within the trump organization decided to send these to the "new york times". the only news here is more than 20-year-old alleged tax document was illegally obtained. a further demonstration that the "new york times" and the general media is an extension of the clinton campaign, the democratic party. the "new york times" has had some groundbreaking reporting on hillary clinton's problems. her transparency problems, her clinton foundation, e-mail server. that dog just doesn't hunt. >> donald trump is out of step here with just about every bit of precedent we have about how presidential nominees run so

it's very hard for them to make an argument asking for tax returns is something that's beyond the pale for a presidential nominee. and what's interesting about the way the "times" this sort of glimpse of trump from the "times" is that it comes at a time when he was dealing with a lot of losses related to his management of atlantic city casinos. that's something for the clinton folks is pure gold. they want to talk about that as much as possible. who did he pay? who did he not pay? how did he walk out of that place with so much in losses and manage to potentially make money at the end of the day by not paying taxes? >> let's go back to the first debate to continue the k. this was a ripe issue in the first debate. hillary clinton benefitted from that debate. now we know that that's out there she wants to make it a big issue in the second debate. >> maybe he doesn't want the american people, all of you

watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes because the only years that anybody has ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. >> that makes me smart. >> you mentioned that makes me smart. another point when she was criticizing him for filing bankruptcy and not paying the little guys. he said that's good business. that's what a good businessman does. this is where we're going. trump's whole point is populism. >> the clinton campaign some of herbert moments when she was talking about the contractor or sort of these little guys and you can imagine the trump campaign now bringing some of those people out front like we saw alicia machado last week and using those people as surrogate, people stiffed by trump now at a time when we know trump wasn't

paying his federal income tax. >> he's asked directly now did you pay your federal taxes because as we played in the opening he told dana bash that he did pay his federal taxes. when he said right now it was smart during the debate, perhaps not to pay his taxes. has he paid his taxes or not. what does mike pence say on tuesday. >> for the trump supporters out there say why are we focusing just on this why not hillary clinton. there's legitimate questions about hillary clinton. we know about those donors because the records are public. we know about her taxes. donald trump's are not. not exactly equal footing when it comes to transparency. ahead trump's taxes aren't the only things critical. first his temperament and his judgment. politics say the darnest things with a little help from alek baldwin. >> he has not paid his tax

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welcome back. the latest tax controversy hardly donald trump's only rough patch this week. to hillary clinton and her campaign now. she knows trump spent the day since the first presidential debate promising to be more aggressive in the second and perhaps mother-in-law raising the monica lewinsky scandal and his impeachment. >> he can run his campaign however he chooses. that's up to him. i'm going to keep talking about the states in this election. i'm going to keep talking about my agenda. >> looking back of the past week interesting. she's been talking about her

agenda and checking the boxes. stops in new hampshire and florida. a visit to iowa. a new spanish language aimed at latinos. [ speaking foreign language ] >> they are bringing crime, they are rapists. >> it's a disciplined strategy but there was a weekend hiccup an audio obtained by a hacker in which she's speaking at a campaign fundraiser and discussing bernie sanders supporters. >> some are new to politics completely. their children of the great recession. they are living in their parents' basement. if you listen to the whole audio and go online and find it, she does say we need to understand this. she's trying to say to her fundraisers we need to understand the discontent and disenkmaent. if you making snippets it sounds

conde sending. >> she used to do on the trail in the primaries especially when things got hairy with bernie towards the end. she would say things like sanders supporters need to read the fine print. nothing in life is free. you can't get free college, free health care, this and that. that's where she was going. living in your parents' basement thing sounds like, you know, older folks say about younger folks when they are trying to be basically you don't do anything for what you have. that's probably the place she shouldn't have gone. it does speak of where they were six months ago when she was trying to convince a lot of democrats hey i get why you want this stuff but it can't be free. >> come at a really difficult time because she's struggling with the millennial vote right now. you see poll after poll a lot of those voters are going to gary johnson and not coming to her. people who do support bernie sanders and probably the same people that she's putting down

there, they are living in their parents' basement. even if it's a snippet it gives the ammunition that the trump campaign needs. >> she's saying this to her friends behind closed doors to donors like basket of deplorables. she's putting one face forward to bernie sanders supporters saying please come vote for me and behind closed doors, look at this. that two faced appearance is, that's hurtful. >> deplorables, this fundraiser, 47% for mitt romney, fundraiser. politicians take note study your history. donald trump jumping in. he wants some of these voters. if they don't vote for him they will be happy in some states. let's listen to donald trump on the trail. >> hillary clinton thinks bernie sanders supporters are hopeless and ignorant basement dwellers. then, of course, she thinks people who vote for and follow

us are deplorable and irredeemable. i don't think so. >> what trump said is not exactly what she said. but you don't blame him. that's what you do in politic, use a little hyperbole to take advantage of what they see as an opening. hillary clinton wants to have people be idealistic and set goals. she is fighting for exactly what the millennial generation is fighting for. a fairer, more equal. >> this is a problem for hillary clinton. she has had problems, you know, sort of uniting the party. you know, just sort of the context on the campaign is whoever we're talking about is losing almost. both of these candidates are deeply unliked by the american public. hillary clinton has won the past week mostly in the context we've

been talking a lot about donald trump. i think if she can quickly move past this and get back on trump which the taxes give her an easy opening to do. >> not like donald trump hasn't said nasty things about big groups of people. every minority group has a trump insult they can throw back at him. nobody has the market cornered on being nice torch. that should be said. mexican rapist, muslims shouldn't come in to this country. >> if you go state by state and look at the polling this is one of her glaring weaknesses. very methodical disciplined campaign. they are trying to reassemble the obama coalition. one of the groups you try to get to vote early is the millennials. they are not the most reliable. they are not invested in the parties. does she have to come back to the back of the plane this is what i meant to say. >> she will have to answer for

this one, one way or another. but i also think that they have a lot of other work to do. some of the stuff is actually the same stuff she was saying in the primaries and the reason why there's so many hard feelings left over. the challenge isn't different, it's just continuing on. for donald trump, i mean, any vote for gary johnson at the moment is helping him because it's preventing hillary clinton from rising higher but not helping him get any higher either and he has to do both. he has to bring her down and raise himself up and i don't think this is enough to do it. >> as we've seen democrats make a more concerted effort targeting gary johnson, not attacking him personally but making that argument a vote for gary johnson effectively is helping donald trump. be interesting to see bernie sanders start to make that argument. if he does more aggressively. he'll be a bigger presence on the campaign trail going forward. >> interesting to see if bernie sanders in his events this next

week calm down here's what she meant. don't worry about hillary clinton because i'm sure bernie sanders looks at part of these remarks, we need to understand this. there's frustration that's out there. bernie sanders will look at this and maybe have some issues. we'll see. everybody sit tight. overnight tweets, more controversial comments about women. what happened to donald trump's promises to be more presidential. and which of the running mates do you think has been most effective so far. mike pennsylvania, tim kaine or haven't you been paying attention? go to cnn.com/vote. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients.

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welcome back. there are a lot of reasons, how much time you got to examine that our campaigns are too long. but a year or more of grueling pressure reveals a lot about a

person. we were told donald trump understands being a nominee and possible president. yet he refused to rigorously prepared for the first debate. and his jokes on women would be different from trump the reality star. here's trump just the other day explaining his dealings with the former miss universe. >> she was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst. she was impossible. she gained a massive amount of weight and it was -- it was a real problem. we had a real problem. not only that, her attitude. >> forget what donald trump's staff tells reporter. donald trump has repeatedly promised top campaign aides and top leaders of the republican party he knows he needs to be presidential and to dial it back on social media. yet this past week another overnight tweet storm attacking critics and urging people to watch a sex tape. if there's one lesson, donald trump is who he is and i don't think anyone at the table would

disagree unlikely he'll change. they get him to read the teleprompter for a day or two. last night he had prepared remarks and wandered off. we'll get to the polls in a minute. hillary clinton came out of the first debate with momentum. what do they do? >> they do what he did in the run up to the first debate which is to deliver a message on the campaign trail. he made that argument he's the candidate of change and she's been in washington for 30 plus years and hope that mike pence on tuesday can reset the narrative. the problem is donald trump is still digging up, bringing up issues like hillary clinton's past. bill clinton's past sex scandals. issues that make a lot of republicans frankly very nervous that they don't want him to delve into this territory. >> before you jump in they put him on a teleprompter. trump has promised the speaker of the house, the chairman of the republican national committee i get it. house and senate and dog catcher

candidates depend on me. they put him on a teleprompter. we have donald trump spind. yesterday he had a prompter but educationally decided to deviate. >> she's got bad temperament. she could be president. she could actually be president. >> you were saying? >> you know, it actually still applies. he should take a cue from his running mate. i covered mike pence when he was in the house and mike pence, it's hard to knock him off his talking points, hard to knock him off message. he goes back to his talking points no matter what the topic is. donald trump needs to learn how to do that. we see that a little bit. when you get under his skin, a little far afeed he takes it and runs with it. he and mike pence should be locked in a room together. >> he did a good job for a couple of weeks because he was on message. almost like he's sort of a jack in the box.

you wind him up and can keep him down there for a while but his true self pops up again and again. he's done that over and over again where u.s. not in his dna to sort of be quiet and not go off message. the problem for him last week is that he got under the skin with the alicia machado stuff and he was focused on her and not hillary clinton. a good politician can pivot from talking about machado redirecting the attack to hillary clinton which donald trump failed at. >> trump supporters will say there they go again, media saying donald trump shouldn't do this, donald trump shouldn't do that. here's the former speaker of the house and trump adviser, newt gingrich on whether trump should be tweeting at 3:00 in the morning. >> you can't tweet at 3:00 in the morning. period. there's no excuse ever. not if you're going to be president of the united states. what trump has to understand he's either got to say i got to be me or sing a new song i got

to be president. they are not the same song. he's got to become much more disciplined. >> little late in the campaign to learn a new song as the former house speaker put it. >> trump said in the primary season he would be so boring as a general election candidate we wouldn't even want to talk about him or cover him. clearly that's not the case. interesting to hear that come from newt gingrich who could have been his running mate. shows the level of concern there is within the republican party by donald trump doing things like this. >> somebody needs to take his phone away. this is the core of the problem. he can't be left to his own devices on the internet because he starts doing what he did last night. >> left to his own devices. that's good. >> on top of that, it does raise the question whether there's anyone around trump who can tell him what to expect in a debate context when hillary clinton is trying to get under his skin. like is he willing to be prepared in the sense that people have to say mean things

about him? he has to be prepared to take it and internalize it and move on. that's the kind of debate prep and sort of campaign prep that he needs to engaging seriously because lord knows hillary clinton is engaging in that sort of thing. she has people saying mean things to her cuyahoga that's what donald trump would do to her. >> can anybody get to him? again it works in short spurts. this is one of the reasons he's had three campaign managers. they brought paul mania fort, they brought in kellyanne conway. she went on "the view" and said he doesn't get credit for restraint. >> you don't get cookies when you run for president. you don't. >> you can restrain him for only so long. >> hillary clinton wants to jump in. she thinks this is a temperament issue, a judgment issue. she thinks the more she gets under his skin the more she will

get. >> who gets up at 3:00 in the morning to engaging a twitter attack against a former miss universe? i mean, he hurled as many insults as he could. really. why does he do things like that? his latest twitter meltdown is unhinged even for him. it proves yet again that he's temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief. >> a lot of people including the current president of the united states have rebounded from bad first debates. plenty of time left in this race. i do think that because of the combination of events, the controversy about tax, this past week about the 3:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m. tweets this is an important week, ten days for donald trump. >> how important it is for mike pence to have a good night tuesday to reset the narrative. he delivers that argument against hillary clinton better than donald trump does.

and to jackie's point earlier because he's relentlessly on message watch for him to do that. we'll see how -- the number of issues he differs with donald. >> what happens when the moderator or tim kaine says governor have you tweeted at 3:00 a.m., governor have you released your taxes. what are the answer. >> mike pence has to be himself. this is the part where mike pence is his own man. he's an island. he'll release his taxes. he'll talk about things that donald trump won't. he'll just say i don't know what donald trump will do here's what i'm going to do. he has to. he doesn't have many options. >> mike pence 2020. >> he has to worry about his own political hide too. we know donald trump obsesses about polls and we know he isn't happy with the latest wave of data. next the map of the debate is trending this way. we go in. onside kick.

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difference. >> i almost resent vice president your patronizing attitude you have to teach me about foreign policy. >> senator, i served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> who am i? why am i here? >> can i call you joe? >> i think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way. [ laughter ] >> but i always say what i mean. >> a little history there to get you excited about the face off as the vice presidential debate between tim kaine and mike pence. the state of the race is moving in hillary clinton-tim kaine's direction. simple math. for donald trump to win he has to turn some of these blues red. he had momentum going into the first debate.

look at this. brand new poll the other day up in new hampshire a seven-point clinton lead. could be key. michigan donald trump has talked about reagan democrats becoming trump democrats, seven-point lead for clinton. out in nevada, donald trump has been ahead consistently out here. surprising us. but a poll at the end of the week shows clinton ahead ten state of nevada. latino vote critical for her. in the biggest battleground states, donald trump second home in florida, clinton ahead even though trump had momentum going into the first debate, donald trump can't afford to lose that one. why does that matter? as of now, if you can't turn any of these light blues to red and win the toss up states donald trump can't win. if hillary clinton can win florida we just showed you that poll game over. pressure is on mike pence and donald trump who is enlisting his daughter for a little help.

>> my father will change outdated labor laws so that they support women and american families. he will provide tax credits for child care, paid maternity leave and dependent care savings accounts. this will allow women to support their families and further their careers. >> what are your expectations for the fracas in the farm bill. >> these are two seasoned politicians ready to go to bat for their candidates. we might see some policy. but we'll have -- >> is that allowed. >> i know. it's shocking but i do think these two have a lot to defend for their, the top of the ticket and we'll see a lot of that. >> almost inverse of the top of the ticket where these two are relatively unknown to the public. fairly substantive both of them. they are not disliked like the people on the top of the ticket. do you have a chance for maybe some policy although i think

both sides are trying to pin the unpopular top of the ticket on each other. >> it's a proxy war. mike pence wants to make the point that hillary clinton is corrupt and can't be trusted. tim kaine wants to make the point that donald trump is a loose canon. >> tim kaine can tell a good narrative story about his candidacy and hillary clinton's candidacy in a way that she actually struggle wls. so he's going to be out there on home turf in virginia in his home state a part of virginia that allows him to tell the story of racial reconciliation and tell a diversity in america. i think we can expect to see more of that from tim kaine which kind of elevates the conversation, takes it a little bit out of the gutter and into a place that's more aspirational and hopeful. >> let's take you out to the campaign trail. you've given us plenty of reasons why do look at what donald trump say and what hillary clinton. the number twos are getting less

attention than normal one since the number ones are provocative. tim kaine makes the case on the campaign trail that donald trump should not be in the situation room on big nights and hillary clinton is ready. >> hillary showed she's prepared to be president and prefired be commander-in-chief. she offered the details of her plans. she gave us the stronger together vision. on the other side, you have a guy who is, look, if you're that rattled in a debate -- >> he's not exactly a dynamo. they are both very likeable guys, approachable guys. >> he's like an awe schucks guy. everybody's uncle. not quite like uncle joe joe biden but he knows how to attack. he knows how to go on the

offensive. what tim kaine's job is continue donald trump's bleeding. what we saw from that poll just now is that hillary clinton is ahead but not by a very comfortable margin. still a very, very tight race. what that first debate did essentially halt donald trump's momentum give hillary clinton some momentum but tim kaine needs to keep that momentum going forward because this race can easily shift, especially if tim kaine slips and mike pence has a good night. >> if mike pence can shift the conversation away from tweets from a former beauty queen at 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 in the morning. to you had a democratic president for eight years, how do you feel about the economy, it's time for change. >> if you want change, if you want a stronger next at home and abroad that stands by our constitution and the highest standards in public life we have

to decide here and now in the hoosier state that hillary clinton will never be elected president of the united states of america. >> i think at the end of the day i do wonder how many people will watch this debate and be like man i wish those guys were at the top of the ticket. >> but the change argument is absolutely essential. if you can convince people it's time for change then some of the other stuff doesn't matter as much. what is this about? is this a referendum on obama and clinton and do we want four more years on democrats or is it on donald trump and is he fit to be president. >> that's the best parts of donald trump's argument. mike pence doesn't have all the baggage that trump brings to the campaign and he's more practiced at debates. you can imagine mike pence prosecuting the case against hillary clinton than donald trump can. >> that's the worst part of hillary clinton's be debate the

first 30 minutes. watch for trump to do that on the campaign trail and mike pence as well. >> i think mike pence is going to beat tru trump without trump. i think in some ways pence and tim kaine are well matched. it's all about the message but not without the candidates themselves. >> everybody sit tight our reporters will give you a sneak peek into the reporters notebook nest maybe a big state back in play. and we asked you who has been the most effective running mate so far. most of you say tim kaine. approve this message.

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week. it's bean state that's slipping from hillary clinton for the last couple of weeks but she's headed back there this week, tomorrow and bill clinton is going to do two days on the ground there busting it around in eastern ohio. and they have an opportunity right now between the first and second debate to take advantage of whatever momentum she has going into the second debate and turn things around. the key here, especially for hillary clinton will be working class women in the suburbs and some of those women are going to be paying close attention to what's been going on with donald trump these last few days especially with his meltdowns around miss universe, alicia machado and other things. >> see if she can put ohio back on the map. >> this is north carolina that's become a major presidential battleground, now central to the fight for the senator majority. the republican incumbent now sane really tough fight against a little known democrat named deborah ross. republicans when you talk to them around town are very

worried that this seat could slip if a lot more money doesn't start to go into this state. donald trump for one is not spending as nearly as much as hillary clinton that's helping the democrats at large. and watch for republicans to really go after deborah ross's record as an aclu attorney. tens of millions of dollars are going there because they have to save the seat. >> matt? >> the baseball playoffs are starting. and those in red sox nation are lo championship. another red sox is gaining attention. curt schilling continues to make waves and discuss possibly running in 2018 against elizabeth warren as a senator in massachusetts. a lot of reasons to be skeptical about this. curt schilling has talked in the past about running and he didn't.

he's made some controversial statements that got him fired at espn. recent poll he's serious enough he's included in polls he's down 19% to elizabeth warren. but if in the aftermath of this election there is coat tails to any trump movement which right now we should be skeptical about that, but if there is, curt schilling is a very trump-like candidate in massachusetts and would help us combine politics and sports, the two loves of the state. >> proud member of the nation, in the sports box he's forever a hero. in politics, let's see about that one. >> donald trump has gotten closer and closer to putting his full attack on hillary clinton's marriage. so far hillary clinton has really taken a step back and has said she will take the high ground. don't expect her super p.a.c.s to be as againstle. one of them told me they are ready for anything. but i would look to them to do her dirty work.

>> personal versus personal. great. just how we want to end the issues. i'll close with more on the giant questions facing trump. the operation has been a mess since the beginning and there are huge tensions now as this giant second debate looms. trump was described as beyond annoyed to hear his campaign manager kellyanne conway say on television she reprimanded donald trump for talking about the former miss universe. and also stop providing news accounts about trump's refusal to take debate preparation seriously. debate session planned for today. several trump allies are aware how important this week is. they are worried about a frustrated and angry candidate and an organization rich with dysfunctional relationships. that's it for "inside politics". again thank you for sharing your

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