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Watch: Trump Defends Holding Pennsylvania Rally as Hurricane Michael Pummels the South

By Nathan Ouellette
Posted October 11, 2018 at 4:59pm

By Nathan Ouellette

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President Donald Trump called in to Fox & Friends on Thursday to talk about his decision to hold a rally in Pennsylvania Wednesday as the Florida panhandle took a beating from Hurricane Michael. The president said canceling the rally would be unfair to the thousands of supporters waiting to hear him speak.

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