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Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onDecember 25, 2017
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Article snippet: The party also hopes GOP efforts to gut Obamacare and President Trump’s unpopularity will help that cause.  The president has been learning on the job, oftentimes painfully, and he appears to have absorbed a few lessons during his rookie year.  Haiti had sent 15,000 people to the United States since the start of the president’s term, and he was angry. They “all have AIDS,” he said.  The pressure will be on the GOP, which would likely be blamed by voters for any major mistakes.  President Trump observed a mix of presidential and personal traditions - including making calls to the troops, playing a round of golf at a Trump property, and tweeting during down times.   President Trump’s first Christmas Eve in office included tweeting, playing golf, chatting with children, and cheering on US troops.  President Trump on Christmas Eve retweeted a doctored image with the CNN logo imposed on a bloodlike splatter under his shoe, prompting an outcry.   In this Tennessee town, home to barely 1,000 people and at least 10 Christian churches, the word ‘‘holiday’’ doesn’t seem to exist.   Asked on ABC’s ‘‘This Week’’ whether he might run for president in 2020, Flake said ‘‘That’s not in my plans’’ but ‘‘I don’t rule anything out.’’  <?EM-dummyText [This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy ... Link to the full article to read more

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