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Donald Trump declares himself off the GOP chain

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Monday. Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Monday. Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images
By Jim Galloway
Oct 11, 2016

We now have two Republican parties. There's the Paul Ryan faction, and then there's this:

But Donald Trump isn't the only one talking about an October meltdown of America's political core. Check out the headline for a New York Times Magazine feature on Hillary Clinton that just popped up: 'I'm the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse.'

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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