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Analysis: Dueling Trumps deliver a State of Union speech likely to widen deep partisan divide

For over an hour Tuesday night, Presidential Donald Trump vied with pugnacious Trump.

The White House had promised a conciliatory and uplifting State of the Union speech, which stood to reason. It's one thing to inveigh against the mess Trump said he inherited a year ago and another to laud the job he claims to have done cleaning it up.

Gone, then, was the wreckage, the ruin and the dystopian "American carnage" he deplored in the glowering speech at

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