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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Republican Bill Cassidy derides Trump and calls 2024 race ‘sorry state of affairs’

Despite his criticisms towards Trump, Cassidy refrained from declaring whether he would endorse Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.
Despite his criticisms towards Donald Trump, Bill Cassidy refrained from declaring whether he would endorse him as the Republican presidential nominee. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Louisiana’s Republican senator Bill Cassidy has issued new criticisms towards Donald Trump while calling the 2024 presidential race a “sorry state of affairs”.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Cassidy expressed his disapproval for Trump’s hostile rhetoric towards migrants, saying that it had “reflected poorly in terms of regarding folks who are coming here … illegally – and they shouldn’t be, but in a dehumanizing fashion”.

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