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TexasTowelie

(117,261 posts)
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 09:59 PM Oct 2016

Thune, Daugaard: Trump should withdraw from presidential race after sexist remarks

Top Republican officials from South Dakota, including high-ranking U.S. Sen. John Thune and Gov. Dennis Daugaard, have made public calls for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump to remove himself from consideration for president.

The two top state Republicans made their views known in posts on Twitter on Saturday, calling for Trump to end his presidential bid a month before the election after crude remarks by Trump a decade ago surfaced in a video on Friday.

"Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately," Thune said on Twitter.

According to the website Politico, Thune was among the first top Senate Republicans to abandon Trump, a potentially crippling blow for Trump's support in Congress.

Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/thune-daugaard-trump-should-withdraw-from-presidential-race-after-sexist/article_e72a6775-ea70-57a1-aab1-6b4d68e11987.html

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Thune, Daugaard: Trump should withdraw from presidential race after sexist remarks (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
Too late, you are stuck with him. Give it another month and he'll be gone uppityperson Oct 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author kestrel91316 Oct 2016 #2
Maybe that is why those two are trying... IthinkThereforeIAM Oct 2016 #3

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IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,113 posts)
3. Maybe that is why those two are trying...
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 12:04 AM
Oct 2016

... to get their fingers into the Spearfish Canyon and Bismarck Lake properties.

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