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Talking to Trump People
In the days leading up to the debate at Washington University, the usually taboo topic of politics was one of the only things people could talk about. Although Missouri is a mostly red state, Washington University is more liberal due to the large number of students from the East and West coasts. If someone is…
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Economic Policy: Putting “Magic” in the Campaign
The Oct. 9 debate between the economic advisers to Trump and Clinton may have lacked allegations of sexual harassment, threats of jailing the opposing party’s nominee, and a television audience numbering in the tens of millions, but it did contain allegations of “magic” and plenty of wild hand gesticulations. Early in the afternoon on Oct.…
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Donald Trump Accidentally Attacked by Student Coalition After Being Mistaken as a Clown
Sunday night, millions of Americans tuned in to watch Donald Trump blunder and fib through another presidential debate. The second debate, which was hosted at Washington University, was arguably not the most perilous part of the Republican nominee’s St. Louis visit, however. An hour after closing remarks, Donald Trump was mistaken as another clown in…
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WUPR Goes to the Debate
WUPR executive director Billie Mandelbaum and co-editor-in-chief Sam Klein are inside the Media Filing Center at the second 2016 debate, hosted at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Here Come the Clydesdales
Eight massive Clydesdales strapped into black and gold harnesses adorned with red and white ribbons towered over a crowd at Brookings Hall this afternoon. The world-famous Anheuser Busch Clydesdales are no new site to St. Louis, in fact, Anheuser Busch’s main stable is just twenty minutes away, but today they galloped onto campus for the…
