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" The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too. "
Gretchen Carlson
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" We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in Miss USA - I'm five foot three, I'm not a model, and I never wanted to be one. "
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