Former GOP governor David Beasley says Trump's 'demeaning' rhetoric pushed him from party
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- PBS NewsHour reports: “David Beasley spent more than three decades as a Republican, serving as South Carolina's governor before leading Nobel Peace Prize-winning efforts at the U.N. World Food Programme. Recently, he ann…”
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