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Akakoji

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2. "they keep looking for that one story, that one headline"

Reply to Grown2Hate (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 02:00 AM

Wednesday

“Now the national pundits, the political establishment, they keep looking for that one story, that one headline, that one moment in my life that they can define the campaign by,” Platner said. “But in trying so hard to understand me, they fail to understand that this is not about me at all. This is a movement about us.”

Stop feeding the media bullshit machine, folks.

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