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Commentary: The national emergency is in our president's skull

When Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced he was running for president in 2015, he said he wanted to see America "no longer being passive in the face of Chinese and Russian aggression." When Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced her 2020 presidential bid on Monday, she said, "I'm running for every parent who wants a better world for their kids."

When Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2015, he said, of Mexican immigrants, "they're rapists."

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