An Independent candidate emerges in the Arizona governor’s race

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he asserts a clear break from the Republican he once revered. He accuses Trump of having reneged on anti-interventionist promises and of governing in continuity with the elite that the MAGA movement claimed to oppose. In a recent interview with The Times, he dismissed his previous activism as a political and moral failure,

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:Since I’m one of the only people that seem to have their wits about them and understand what’s actually going on in the world, it is up to me, as far as I’m concerned, to do something about these problems.”

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On January 20 of last year, the day of the inauguration of the new presidential term, the GOP leader granted him a pardon along with roughly 1,500 other defendants or convicts involved in the intrusion into the “temple of American democracy.” During the trial, the defense highlighted a long history of psychological vulnerabilities, also documented in prior clinical assessments.

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