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Rick Santorum: “There's nothing I'm going to do to defend the president in this. I've said it many times and I'll say it, he gets in the…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2019
There's nothing I'm going to do to defend the president in this. I've said it many times and I'll say it, he gets in the way of -- look at the CNN poll that shows that 71 percent of the public think that the economy is on the right track and things are going well. He's doing a good job in many respects as president and then he does this, that diverts attention away from the job he's doing and some of the things that are positive and just likes to focus on things that aggrieve him, and it's all personal.
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Rick Santorum discusses how President Trump distracts from his positive achievements by focusing on personal grievances.

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