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On the recordAugust 6, 2019
the words that he has used to describe immigrants and to describe Hispanics and really all minorities, that those words are wrong, that he should never have done that -- never said them, and that he takes them back.
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Veronica Escobar
Democratic · Texas

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Escobar expresses the need for President Trump to acknowledge and retract his harmful rhetoric about immigrants and minorities.

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