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Closing out Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, liberal correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell played the role of Ronald Reagan biographer in using the late former president to attack the current Republican presidential field and ruled that Reagan’s “message was infused with sunny optimism” and represents “the flip side of today's angry rhetoric.”
Roughly an hour before the main Republican debate at the Reagan Library, Mitchell began the segment by explaining that “the other Republican race” has been “[t]he candidates racing to compared themselves to Ronald Reagan,” but quickly declared that the Gipper “skewered his opponents with a self-deprecating quip” and “not an attack.”