Name: What The Trump Era Taught Me About Covering Politics
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What The Trump Era Taught Me About Covering Politics

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In the fall of 2015, I was having drinks in Washington with a colleague at the time, now-MSNBC host Joy Reid. (I was working at NBC News.) Donald Trump was of the 2016 Republican presidential primary. But I was confident he would not win the nomination.Very confident.I told Joy, who is a friend, that Trump was experiencing a sugar high in the polls, not unlike . I predicted the Republican establishment would organize against Trump and embrace the obvious candidate for the party’s future, a kind of a Barack Obama for the right: Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.Joy was equally confident. Trump was...

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