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Barack Obama: “When you get rhetoric like this, it may, maybe it gets attention and maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2015
When you get rhetoric like this, it may, maybe it gets attention and maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines. But it is not the kind of leadership that is needed for America right now.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama criticizes the rhetoric used by Republicans to compete with Trump.

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