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The Point: Conversations and insights about the moment.

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By David Swerdlick 
| The New York Times
A strange thing about the presidential campaign we just endured is how many people rationalized their support for Donald Trump by arguing that he wouldn't make good on some of his central promises. "I think mass deportation is just talk, but the era of open borders will be over," Scott McConnell, a co-founder of The American Conservative, wrote on X. In July a Mexican-born Trump backer told The Times, "Last time, he didn't even finish the wall.
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Manchin wants to limit federal spending. West Virginia gets more than its share.

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By David Swerdlick 
| Post Outlook
Last month, Sen.
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Black Tea Partier Katrina Pierson Takes on Obama-and Her Own Party

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By David Swerdlick 
| The Root
Katrina Pierson isn’t who most people picture when they think of the Tea Party. The movement is, according to a recent poll, 83 percent white, and the 37-year-old political activist is a black woman who, given her multiracial background, might have been derisively described by fellow Texan Ted Nugent as a “mongrel”—just as he referred to President Barack Obama, also biracial, a month ago. But demography aside, Pierson is all Tea Party.
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