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Poll: Half of Voters Would Be ‘Embarrassed’ by Trump as President

Ryan Struyk

(ABC News) — Fifty percent of American voters say they would be “embarrassed” if Donald Trump were president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. The current Republican frontrunner, whose 28 percent support in this poll tops his competition for the GOP nomination, would make 23 percent of voters “proud,” the poll found. Other recent national polls…

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Led by GOP, House nears OK of renewing $600B in tax cuts

ABC Columbia Staff

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed a year-end tax-cut compromise toward House passage Thursday as Congress prepared to finish 2015 with a flurry of accomplishment and await the partisan collisions sure to dominate the coming election year. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California was leading a charge against the tax measure, but GOP leaders seemed certain to prevail. That would…