I Am Stunned

Floor Speech

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Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. Mr. Speaker, I come this morning rather stunned because I am witnessing comments by Presidential candidate Trump and Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence that stuns me.

Today I heard that Pence basically said that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama in his country. And then, of course, Donald Trump is arguing that the Russians are not meddling in American Presidential politics, despite the fact he was interviewing on a Russian television station.

What is going on here? Is this patriotism? I don't know why all of a sudden we have a Presidential candidate who is praising or talking about basically a dictator being better than the President of the United States of America.

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