" I don't know if you can see, there's a little portion there -- "He's lost the Southern white vote.

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To prove it, I'll send you one free prediction every week for the next five weeks, and when you see I'm 100% accurate I can guarantee you'll be praying there is still a copy of the program left.

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So I think what you can see from the President on down through his team, there will be a sustained engagement in this issue.

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And if you don't see a role model, you say to yourself, my gosh, I can't be like that person because there's nobody who looks like me and I don't inspire too much, and that's a problem.

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There have been doors as you can see from my background all along my way because I was so fortunate to have a wonderful family, wonderful parents, and wonderful people who often times saw more in me than I saw in myself all along my way.

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