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Trump asks convention crowd to pledge to him they will vote, ‘cheat like hell’

At the midterm event, the president had audience members raise their hands and repeat after him.

Closing out the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday, President Donald Trump asked those in the audience to raise their right hands.

He then led them in a pledge, to him, that they would vote in the midterm elections.

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