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Shadowing My Gregarious GOP Grandma at the Republican National Convention
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Shadowing My Gregarious GOP Grandma at the Republican National Convention

I’m a conflicted conservative who could never vote Trump. She’s a diehard delegate who would do anything for the cause. She had four days to try to convert me.

Tom Markham
Jul 21, 2016
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“The Republicans sure know how to throw a party, don’t they?” my grandfather asked me on our first night out in Cleveland.

“No kidding,” I shouted back over the band – a group from San Diego playing “Sweet Home Alabama” at a function hosted by delegations from Mississippi and Wisconsin.

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