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Wed Jan 13, 2016, 03:19 AM Jan 2016

Donald Trump: State Of The Union Punching Bag

Washington (CNN)

Donald Trump's ears must have been burning.

The political establishment that the billionaire outsider's army so despises united in a rare moment of bipartisan unity on Tuesday night -- against him.

President Barack Obama turned his valedictory State of the Union address into a repudiation of the partisanship, intolerance, and alienating rhetoric for which he believes that the GOP front-runner stands.

Then, Nikki Haley, the Indian-American governor of South Carolina who pulled down the Confederate flag last year, used the Republican Party's televised rebuttal to urge Americans to defy the "angriest voices" tearing at her party during a fractious 2016 primary.

"Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference," Haley said. "That's just not true."

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/13/politics/haley-obama-trump-state-of-the-union-2016/

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