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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I was not surprised, because he's had a very long line of this kind of rhetoric and of close association, not only in…”

On the recordJanuary 10, 2019
I was not surprised, because he's had a very long line of this kind of rhetoric and of close association, not only in this country, but in Europe, with white nationalists.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton responds to Steve King's comments on white supremacy, noting his history of similar rhetoric.

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