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I would agree if the race were today, most likely, our nominee would be Donald Trump, but it isn`t today.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Melissa Harris-Perry
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 2
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Jeb`s Bush front-runner status was short lived, to say the least. But who could have predicted that the Republican front-runner would be someone that we were not even thinking about.Donald Trump was not even on anyone`s radar back then and Mike Pence was getting more attention than he was.
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I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. Listen, I live in a poor black neighborhood where women wear blue hair, green hair, and all kinds of stuff. So, I simply see it as a different set of choices.
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