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<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: Trump’s Top Defender in Congress

This is hardly the first time that Nunes has gone out of his way to defend the president. Plus, 2020 candidates who tick the right boxes, yet still aren’t taking off.

It’s Tuesday, November 19. In today’s newsletter: a word on Devin Nunes during the impeachment hearings. Plus, why these 2020 candidates tick the right boxes, yet still aren’t taking off.

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Trump’s top defender in Congress

If “little pencil neck Adam Schiff” represents the chief villain to the president and his supporters during the ongoing impeachment inquiry, who is Donald Trump’s top defender on Capitol Hill?

The yin to Schiff’s yang is another representative

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