Patricia Murphy
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Twin mom. Early riser. @AJC Political columnist & Politically Georgia radio host. @dailybeast , @rollcall , @gardenandgun alumn. Homegrown Georgian via DC & NYC.
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This
@staceyabrams
line: “I may not be governor of Georgia but I promise you, no one in Georgia will ever forget that I was here.”
#gapol
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U.S. Rep. Karen Handel, R-Roswell, just conceded defeat and congratulated Democrat Lucy McBath. Handel will have served just 18 months in Congress.
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.
@DavidPerdueGA
’s opening message in the first GOP governor’s debate: “First off, let me be very clear, the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen:”
#gapol
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Sometimes you know you’re seeing history. A Black Georgia senator telling Black Georgia farmers, “Help is on the way.” It’s never happened before.
#gapol
Georgia
@SenatorWarnock
gets a hero’s welcome in Byromville, a town of about 600 people where he’s promoting a $5B plan embedded in the coronavirus stimulus package to help farmers of color who have lost land and resources because of systemic racial discrimination
#gapol
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NEW: President Joe Biden has signed the bill to rename the VA Medical Center in Atlanta after the late Sen. Max Cleland. The bill was sponsored by
@SenatorWarnock
and
@SenOssoff
, who both called him a “patriot,” which he was.
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From George Will, one of the most brutal assessments of any sitting president I’ve ever read:
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Early fireworks over 2020 at GOP governor’s debate: David Perdue says he’d still be in the Senate if Kemp had not “caved.” Kemp says Perdue is lying: “Weak leaders blame everybody else for their own loss instead of themselves.”
#gapol
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Dear friends: At the end of this next week, my 41-year career at the AJC will end. My cell phone number remains the same, but my primary email will change to ajcjgalloway
@gmail
.com. Please use it if you would like to stay in touch. All the best....
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Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ investigation into whether Donald Trump broke state laws after the 2020 elections is moving forward. Investigators have interviewed multiple staff in
@GaSecofState
's office, Raff says he'll "cooperate fully."
#Gapol
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Something that Georgia needs to discuss in the next days and weeks: There’s a way to keep the late John Lewis in Congress. Remove the figure of Alexander Stephens, the Confederate leader, from National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Replace him with John Lewis.
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Donald Trump claimed 5,000 dead people voted in Georgia. Investigators found just 4.
#gapol
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Ga. House approves bill to OK statue of John Lewis to replace Georgia's current statue in Statuary Hall -- of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, a vice president of the Confederacy.
#gapol
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Also in the Jolt this am, one of the hosts for a weekend fundraiser for
@HerschelWalker
this weekend appears to have a swastika as her profile pic. We have reached out for a response from the Walker camp.
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.
@ReverendWarnock
raised $5.7 M in Q1, off to a fast fundraising start for 2022 Senate re-election race, via
@bluestein
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A federal lawsuit charges that Georgia treats Puerto Rico residents different from other U.S. citizens when it comes to drivers licenses. They have to know what meat fills a plantain fritter. And be able to name the frog native only to Puerto Rico.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene outraised in Q1 by her Dem challenger
@Marcus4Georgia
, who has raised a monster sum of $7.1 M total so far to take her on.
#gapol
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So many punches in this GOP debate:
@GovKemp
to
@DavidPerdueGA
; “The only one lying here is you.”
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As a private investigator, Herschel Walker was a great football player. A state senator does not count votes. And UGA stars lose much of their luster when they peddle trash like this:
Is this a Senator counting votes?
How much more has to be exposed before you guys do the right thing
@BrianKempGA
@GaSecofState
@sendavidperdue
@KLoeffler
@realDonaldTrump
@RudyGiulianli
@JennaEllisEsq
#FOX
IN THE HENHOUSE
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The Ga GOP governor’s debate tonight feels like family counseling gone awry. Accusations and grievances pouring out from both candidates. Perdue keeps hammering the “consent decree” that Kemp played no role in. “You’re blaming everyone but yourself for your loss!” Kemp says.
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BREAKING: A state Senate committee has now passed the bill to break Atlanta into two parts, along with a bill to create the City of Buckhead City.
#gapol
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This morning in the Sunday comics, Gary Trudeau takes on Gov. Brian Kemp on the pandemic and past voter purges.
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Today doesn't just mark Biden’s first 100 days in office. It’s
@ossoff
and
@ReverendWarnock
's 100th day, too.
Little of what Biden has done so far would have been possible w/o the votes of Georgia's two new senators.
#gapol
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A Sussex royal connection to the food trucks today-->
Thank you, Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, for providing local Black-owned food trucks for
@TheKingCenter
’s King Day Community Service Project volunteers today. I’m so grateful for your graciousness in honoring my father.
#MLKDay
#BelovedCommunity
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Jon Ossoff, debating an empty podium in a GPB studio, says David Perdue decided not to appear out of a fear that he might incriminate himself.
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75K new Georgia voters registered before US Senate runoffs
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NEW: Former Vice President Mike Pence will rally for
@BrianKempGA
in Georgia the night before Georgia's May 24th primary, marking a huge, visible split with Donald Trump. via
@bluestein
#gapol
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At an event with pro-abortion rights activists,
@staceyabrams
tells the mostly female crowd, “Brian Kemp does not care about the women of Georgia, and we need to care enough about ourselves to get him out of here.”
#gapol
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The riskiness of Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to reopen Georgia business so soon after shutdown was made clear by the fact that he put Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and House Speaker David Ralston in front of the cameras. If it backfires, the governor won't be the only one on the hook.
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**Georgia Voters** The deadline to register to vote in the general election is TOMORROW, Oct. 11.
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That was the most coherent I've ever seen Herschel Walker, prepared, aggressive, direct. Some of those answers won't play well, but no catastrophes, which is saying something.
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HUGE: Georgia GOP chair David Shafer and the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, state Sen. Burt Jones, have been informed they’re targets of the Trump/ Fulton DA probe.
@TamarHallerman
@bluestein
#gapol
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Spoken like a former Boy Scout.
Greg from IA is a Republican who cannot stomach this president:
"He is not trustworthy. He is not loyal. He is not friendly. He is not kind. He is not obedient. He is not cheerful. He is not thrifty. He is not reverent... I can't wait to be rid of Trump."
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Kelly Loeffler on Trump's “Access Hollywood” video from 2005: She’s “not familiar” with it, she tells 11Alive’s Doug Richards.
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Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer confirms he DOES plan to be in Atlanta Wednesday to testify to the special grand jury— and that he’s been informed he could be indicted as a result of the probe.
@TamarHallerman
on the case.
#gapol
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The under-appreciated story of the day: McCain blasts Bannon placement on National Security Council
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@GovKemp
’s opening message— “I want to promise you this tonight if you will nominate me as your Republican nominee, I will work every single day…to make sure that Stacey Abrams is never your governor, or your next president.”
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@HerschelWalker
spokeswoman responds, “This is clearly an anti-mandatory vaccination graphic. Herschel unequivocally opposes anti-semitism and bigotry of all kinds.”
#gapol
Also in the Jolt this am, one of the hosts for a weekend fundraiser for
@HerschelWalker
this weekend appears to have a swastika as her profile pic. We have reached out for a response from the Walker camp.
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BREAKING: David Perdue has conceded the Georgia governor’s race to
@BrianKempGA
. “I just called the governor and I congratulated him.”
#gapol
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In the Kemp/ Abrams debate, the debate over abortion went on for nearly 13 minutes, which is hugely beneficial to Abrams since the Georgia law Kemp signed is broadly unpopular.
@staceyabrams
says, “I will defend women with every breath in my body.”
#gapol
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Stacey Abrams preps lawsuit alleging systemic issues with Georgia elections
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More Jolt: Remember Brian Kemp's launch of an investigation into voter data hacking by Georgia Democrats? We checked: Eight days later, law enforcement hasn't inquired:
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Little McIntyre, Ga. has both of Georgia’s U.S. senators,
@ossoff
and
@SenatorWarnock
, in town, about 2 1/2 hours from Atlanta, to break ground on Wilkinson County’s first centralized sewer system. They’ve been trying for more than 40 years to get it done.
#gapol
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Call it the “anti-boycott.” While
@MLB
is pulling the All Star Game out of Ga,
@patagonia
is giving $1 million to
@NewGAProject
and
@BlackVotersMtr
to push voting access in the wake of SB 202.
#gapol
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BREAKING: Stacey Abrams has called Gov. Brian Kemp to concede the race for Georgia governor.
#gapol
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Amazing tick tock from
@bluestein
on how freshman
@ossoff
played a pivotal end role in getting bitter Korean rivals to finalize huge new Georgia battery plant.
#gapol
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The first 24 minutes of the debate have been about the 2020 election, which is actually what
@DavidPerdueGA
wants to talk about. Kemp tried to pivot to jobs and the economy.
#gapol
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This cannot not be ignored or accepted. Police officers were attacked, beaten, doused with bear spray. 140 injured. Two committed suicide. The Vice President was evacuated by the Secret Service. My colleague was in hiding with a gas mask. This statement is 100% false.
Rep. Andrew Clyde's (R-GA) comments today don't hold up well when played side-by-side with insurrection footage, so I made this.
the revisionist history being perpetuated by some Republicans to defend January 6th is disgusting
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Last week, Kelly Loeffler said “no one in Georgia cares about this QAnon business.” Just now, she said she doesn't know anything about QAnon.
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NEW: the
@dscc
, the Georgia Democratic Party and the
@ReverendWarnock
campaign have filed suit against the State of Georgia to allow Saturday voting ahead of the Senate runoff.
#gapol
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NEW: In at least three speeches before he was a candidate for Senate, Herschel claimed to be in law enforcement when he wasn’t. “I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Y’all didn’t know I was an agent?”
#gapol
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.
@Ossoff
on hand for Biden event in Atlanta. He and
@ReverendWarnock
both won in 2020 with Biden on the ballot.
#gapol
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No fraud: Georgia audit confirms authenticity of absentee ballots
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.
@staceyabrams
and the entire Democratic ticket now in Sandy Springs for a GOTV rally.
#gapol
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.
@bluestein
’s book,
@TheFlippedBook
gets a shoutout during GOP governor’s debate. Perdue says “It’s even in Greg Bluestein’s book!” Kemp responds, “I don’t care about some reporter’s book!”
#gapol
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After being everywhere all the time, Herschel Walker has disappeared from public view in Georgia. Aides and former allies say they’ve lost touch with the GOP nominee.
@bluestein
#gapol
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If you’re a
@patagonia
shopper, don’t plan to go on Tuesday. The democracy-friendly retailer is closing all of its retail locations on Election Day, including in Georgia, to give employees a paid day off to vote.
#gapol
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Sheriff Neal Warren, the former sheriff of Cobb County, said he swore-in
@HerschelWalker
as an honorary deputy for the police department during his time as sheriff.
#gapol
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This quote from a GOP operative re: Walker😳😳😳:
“Herschel was like a plane crash into a train wreck that rolled into a dumpster fire. And an orphanage. Than an animal shelter. You kind of had to watch it squinting through one eye between your fingers.
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@JoeBiden
in Duluth: “If you ever wonder if elections make a difference, just remember what you did here in Georgia, when you elected
@ossoff
and
@ReverendWarnock
, you began to change the environment.”
#gapol
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Scalise can only lose four votes and still get to speaker. Here he’s got at least five saying they’re a no. The math problem continues for Republicans until something gives—>
Greene GA - "I will be voting for Jim Jordan"
Boebert CO - "I'm voting for Jim Jordan"
Miller OH - "I'm still backing Jim Jordan"
Cloud TX - "I will not be supporting" Scalise
Massie KY - wants a 'viable plan' from Scalise to avoid an Omnibus
plus other possible GOP holdouts
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“My name is Stacey Abrams and I intend to be the next governor of the great state of Georgia.”
#gapol
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Georgia 2020: Andrew Yang and Dominique Wilkins shoot hoops in Atlanta
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A better response from
@staceyabrams
would have been, “I made a mistake.”
#gapol
Our opponents took a brief break from licking Trump's boots this weekend to issue baseless attacks, and it's more of their typical dishonest, wannabe tough guy fodder to distract from their failures. See the
@staceyabrams
campaign response here 👇
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GOPer Karen Handel hasn't conceded, but Dem Lucy McBath has just laid claim to the Sixth Congressional District.
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“While I was previously unaware of my anti-Russian activities, I accept the verdict of Russia, whose commitment to truth, justice and the rule of law speaks for itself,” Raffensperger said.
#gapol
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Your must-watch assignment for the evening:
"It has all gone too far," Georgia election official
@GabrielSterling
said while addressing threats against election workers.
"Mr. President, you have not condemned this language or these actions. Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions."
#gapol
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Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt...
Welcome to Georgia,
@realDonaldTrump
! Georgia loves you — and elected you!
@POTUS
fought for us, and is STILL fighting for us by coming to support
@KLoeffler
and
@Perduesenate
.
Now we must fight for him! Where there's smoke, there's fire.
#StopTheSteaI
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Opinion: The Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock runoff crosses a line
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Video of the local reporter trying to ask
@mtgreenee
a question at a public town hall meeting (is there any other kind when it’s paid for by taxpayers?). She threatened with “criminal trespass” if she doesn’t leave the meeting and stop asking questions.
#gapol
WATCH: This is the moment Rep. Greene’s office says our team “caused a disturbance” by asking a question, just as others who were attending the town hall had done previously. You can hear the deputy say my team would be charged with “criminal trespass” if they didn’t leave.
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WSB Poll: Warnock soars ahead in wild Georgia U.S. Senate race
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The Georgia campaigns in 2022 cost *at least* $650 million. We’re now spending more money on political campaigns than on the problems we’re electing candidates to solve. 😡
#gapol
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A week after SB 202 passes, Delta CEO Ed Bastian writes in a memo to employees., “I need to make it crystal clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values.”
#gapol
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My quick takeaway-- Libertarian Shane Hazel was belligerent, disrespectful of Stacey Abrams ("Stacey,") and frequently hijacked an otherwise substantive debate between two rivals who probably made their own supporters very proud.
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*MAJOR* abortion news out of Georgia-- a Superior Court judge has ruled that Georgia's six-week abortion ban was "plainly unconstitutional when drafted, voted upon and enacted." The law is void for now and cannot be enforced, with appeals likely.
@gapol
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Automatic registration restored in Georgia after its quiet elimination— and only after
@markniesse
reported it in the
@AJC
.
#gapol
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Former U. S. Sen. Max Cleland was laid to rest today at Georgia National Cemetery, alongside his mother and father, who loved him so much. You couldn’t imagine a more beautiful day in Georgia to go home.
#gapol
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On TV just now, President Donald Trump says the states yet to be called in the presidential contest are corrupt Democratic-run states. So about Georgia.....
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Brand new
@AJC
poll out this morning shows
@BrianKemp
with huge lead over
@DavidPerdueGA
in the Georgia GOP primary 53% to 27%.
#gapol
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Emory Doctor: 20% Of Admitted COVID-19 Patients Suffer 'Cardiac Injury,' Warns Athletes Of Risk | Georgia Public Broadcasting
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Me: Can I have a Coke?
Restaurant: Is a Pepsi ok?
Me: I'll have water.
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Hank Aaron on Trump White House: 'There's nobody there I want to see'
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On a call with reporters,
@staceyabrams
says high voter turnout in Georgia so far does not correlate with the absence of voter suppression from SB 202. "More people in the water doesn't mean there are fewer sharks."
#gapol
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On the day that Gov. Brian Kemp goes to the Fulton County Courthouse to challenge what Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has done, DeKalb Co. CEO Michael Thurmond ups the ante:
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Sen. Jon
@ossoff
rarely fires off a statement about what’s making headlines. So when he does, it’s worth paying attention. This on Donald Trump and the immigration deal Trump trying to stop in Congress—>
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Republicans came into this year’s legislative session looking to rein in what they called “rogue prosecutors.” Georgia’s most famous prosecutor, Fulton County DA Fani Willis, has a problem with that.
#gapol
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For his 75th birthday, Philip knocked on doors to turn out the vote for Democrats in Clarkston, Ga. He also gave me a behind-the-scenes look at the Democrats’ all-important ground game ahead of Election Day.
#gapol
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