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Sean Spicer makes his debut on <em>Dancing With the Stars</em>. Plus: the Latinos who are on board the Trump Train.

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Lindsay Arnold and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer attend the Dancing With the Stars Season 28 show in Los Angeles. (Allen Berezovsky / Getty)

They join large corporations like Amazon. They become pundits and consultants. They consider running for office. And they try to work on their new public image.

Politics (and life after politics) in 2019 is a different beast. So there I was, one of ’s White House reporters, up late on a weeknight watching former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer make his debut on ABC’s , live from Hollywood.

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