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Compared to Trump, Hillary can't be that bad. Can she?

Facing Donald Trump could make any candidate look good. Except perhaps this one

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

The presidential campaign here in the land hymned by one of its earliest immigrants as a shining ‘city on a hill’ looks more and more likely to boil down to electing Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

It is of course possible that the party of Lincoln and Reagan will not go completely off its meds and nominate Mr Trump.

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