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Mitt Romney: “You know, when I was a kid, there was something called a gumball machine. You could put a penny in, and a gumball would…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2023
You know, when I was a kid, there was something called a gumball machine. You could put a penny in, and a gumball would come out. It was automatic. There was no filter. Put in the penny, out came the gumball. Donald Trump is kind of a human gumball machine, which is a thought or a notion comes in, and it comes out of his mouth.
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Mitt Romney
Republican · Utah

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Senator Romney compares Donald Trump's unfiltered speech to a gumball machine, expressing concern over his approach.

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