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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Politics
Jonathan Tamari and Anna Orso

Trump's smackdown of David McCormick shows the risks for Republicans trying a MAGA makeover

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Standing before a wall-sized American flag at an American Legion hall here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, David McCormick talked up his background in the Army, called himself a "happy warrior," and ticked through the reasons he wants to be Pennsylvania's next senator:

Inflation, the border, the "humiliation" of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"What about election integrity?" a woman interrupted from the back. "And CRT!" a man yelled, referring to "critical race theory," a GOP culture-war hobgoblin.

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