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On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
There is a Presidential nominee who has chosen to call 11 million people rapists and murders and proposes Cold War ideological tests on Muslim visitors to this country.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson highlights harmful rhetoric from a presidential nominee regarding immigrants.

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