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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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