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The Abbreviated Highlight Reel of Stacey Dash

Today, in “Congressional Candidates Who Cannot Possibly Win.”

Stacey Dash at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 5, 2016.

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