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Tim Pawlenty: If you compromise, if you try to be a statesman, you get the crap beat out of you.

On the recordMarch 13, 2025
If you compromise, if you try to be a statesman, you get the crap beat out of you.
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Tim Pawlenty

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Tim Pawlenty reflects on the challenges of political compromise in the current environment.

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