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On today's The Excerpt podcast, Nikki Haley is bracing for home-state dirty tricks in South Carolina.
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USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
When strapped to powerful social media algorithms, this fake and digitally created content can spread far and fast and target highly specific audiences, potentially taking campaign dirty tricks to a new low.
—David Klepper and Ali Swenson, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
But for all the talk of South Carolina’s penchant for dirty tricks, the state also values the glad hand.
—Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Stone, known for his embrace of political dirty tricks dating back to Richard Nixon’s reëlection campaign, was ultimately convicted of seven felonies, including obstructing a congressional investigation and making false statements to Congress.
—David Rohde, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
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USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
When strapped to powerful social media algorithms, this fake and digitally created content can spread far and fast and target highly specific audiences, potentially taking campaign dirty tricks to a new low.
—David Klepper and Ali Swenson, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
But for all the talk of South Carolina’s penchant for dirty tricks, the state also values the glad hand.
—Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Stone, known for his embrace of political dirty tricks dating back to Richard Nixon’s reëlection campaign, was ultimately convicted of seven felonies, including obstructing a congressional investigation and making false statements to Congress.
—David Rohde, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
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