M-S-S-W Media Republicans are trying to make it harder for us to vote.

Will they be able to steal the election?

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So Patty, I have to say, this election,

it's, I think it's giving a lot of people anxiety and I think you know for me personally

I'm very apprehensive about what's going to happen you know this has seemed like

four years of a of nightmare, three and a half years, whatever it's been of just a pure nightmare.

One thing after another, scandal after scandal, crisis after crisis, outrage after outrage, it could all

end soon or not, and I have to say I'm concerned that one way or the other Trump is going to use this as a way to

tear apart our country. Well and we are so torn apart as it is and it really feels

like body blow after body blow when we've taken so much

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