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Why this lifelong Republican has to vote for Biden

Why I’m voting for Biden

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

For as long as I was old enough to think about politics, I have been a Republican. When my dad told me, aged six, that Bill Clinton had beaten Bob Dole, I’m told I cried. I don’t remember this, but do have vivid memories of running around St Andrews in my first year at university in a handmade McCain-Palin T-shirt with ‘NO-bama’ sketched in sharpie on the back.

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