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Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

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Tom Hayden
Age: 76 †
Born: 1939
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: October 23
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Thomas Emmet Hayden
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