On this day in 1860, the Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at its convention in Chicago, Illinois. Lincoln went on to win the general election that fall, inheriting a nation deeply divided and on the brink of civil war.
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And when I ask her to read the first line of South Carolina’s declaration of succession. She’s too busy.
I suspect she knows what it says