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It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.

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Chris Matthews
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 17
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