I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.
— Gov. Mike Pence, reaffirming the Trump campaign’s “extraordinary embrace of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, signaling a preference for the leadership of an authoritarian adversary over that of America’s own president, despite a cascade of criticism from Democrats and expressions of discomfort among Republicans,” the New York Times reports.
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