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The D.C. Brief

n a typical election year, we would be seven months away from the first presidential debate of the parties’ nominees. A date and location are already penciled in: Sept. 16 at Texas State University in San Marcos. The campaign teams of President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, would likely schedule days of prep away from the trail, and plan

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