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Mr Pipes, you are baffled?
Reader comment on item: Blowback from Criticizing Trump
Submitted by Baffled (Israel), Jul 22, 2016 at 03:32
... In writing like this to an obviously Republican audience (true as a non-American US politics indeed baffle me) how exactly do you not see that you are helping the dragon lady from Arkansas? Unfortunately Theresa May is not an option there.
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Daniel Pipes replies:
I am advocating voting for a third-party candidate, for a write-in candidate, or for no candidate for president. This is not support for Hillary.
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