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In one of the more intriguing historical analogies you’ll see made in this presidential election, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell compared the 13 days until the March 15 Republican primaries that could decide whether or not Donald Trump is the GOP presidential nominee to the Cuban Missile Crisis from the 1960s.
O’Donnell eventually pivoted to Trump’s release of his so-called health care plan late Wednesday night, but not before telling his viewers that the 13 days until the Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio contests “could change our world” but “[w]e’ve been here before” back in 1962.