Karoline Leavitt’s recent campaign stop at North Conway’s Lobster Trap was a confusing one to cover, and a bit of a mixed message.
Although I was invited to speak with the candidate, I was asked to leave before her stump speech to a group of about a dozen attendees.
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Makes one wonder what she said that they didn’t want reported…..”America First”, the motto or tgecKlu Klux Klamath in the 1920’s, says it all!
Thank you Terry for letting the valley know exactly who this candidate is.
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