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babylonsister

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Mon Nov 26, 2018, 08:15 PM Nov 2018

Rep. Mia Love blasts Trump after defeat

Well DUH, Mia.

Posted on Mon, Nov 26th, 2018 by Reuters
Rep. Mia Love blasts Trump after defeat
By Sharon Bernstein


(Reuters) – U.S. Representative Mia Love, the only black Republican woman in Congress, lashed out on Monday at President Donald Trump and her party, saying in her concession speech that they had failed to fully embrace minority voters.

Love, a conservative congresswoman from Utah, narrowly lost her bid for a third term to Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, a Democrat, according to the final vote tally from the Nov. 6 elections.

Weeks before the race was called, however, Trump criticized Love at a news conference for not supporting him enough.

“The president’s behavior toward me made me wonder, what did he have to gain by saying such a thing about a fellow Republican?” Love told supporters in Utah on Monday. “This gave me a vision of his world as it is. No real relationships, just convenient transactions.”


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On Monday, Love, a Mormon whose parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti in the 1970s, accused the Republican Party of keeping minority voters at a distance and driving people who might otherwise support conservative policies into the arms of the Democrats.

“Because Republicans never take minority communities into their homes, as citizens into their homes and into their hearts, they stay with Democrats,”
she said, noting that Democrats have just elected new black and female representatives to Congress.

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Rep. Mia Love blasts Trump after defeat (Original Post) babylonsister Nov 2018 OP
Another one who's 'woke' now.... too late, Mia. You shoulda dumped his ass long ago. CurtEastPoint Nov 2018 #1
I know girl, huh. Always the last to know. n/t libdem4life Nov 2018 #2
Bye, Felicia! KCDebbie Nov 2018 #3
Mia's a grifter RhodeIslandOne Nov 2018 #4
They showed her her place in the gop Fullduplexxx Nov 2018 #5
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