SO, WHAT A CHALLENGING week this has been for the nation, regardless of your political leanings.
Let’s hope for New Hampshire to once again do its job of picking not corn, like Iowa, but presidents as we head down the home stretch to this Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
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