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While legal, the party’s decision to host a competing contest to the Feb. 6 primary election has angered GOP voters and provided fertile ground for misinformation to take hold, experts say, undermining voters’ trust in the process.
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After facing backlash for saying immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," former President Donald Trump reiterated his hard-line views in a speech on Sunday calling for a "clean up" of the country and, without detailing how, promising to shift "massive portions" of law enforcement to handle migrants at the border, including by recalling soldiers currently stationed overseas. "We have to clean up our country," Trump said before thousands of supporters gathered at a "commit to caucus" campaign event in Reno, Nevada. At what was his third visit to the state so far this year, Trump dedicated nearly 20 minutes of his 80-minute speech talking about border security and immigration, repeating his frequent and hyperbolic claims that "drug dealers," "gang members," "criminals" and people from mental institutions are "invading" the country.