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“He is so light in the loafers, he floats off the ground at times.”


– Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, reaching back to c. 1952 to impugn Beto O’Rourke’s masculinity, we guess, on Fox News. (Host Laura Ingraham quickly let Patrick assert that he “didn’t mean anything by that” …)

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