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In a report for MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, political correspondent Kasie Hunt used the upcoming Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California to proclaim the GOP to be “all but extinct” in the Golden State.
She began by observing: “Well, more than ever, the Republican Party wants to be the candidate of Reagan, they attend Reagan dinners, they go back to his alma mater to give speeches, they come here to his library to debate. But it all raises a question, could Ronald Reagan even get elected in California today?”