WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — With a camo Trump hat on his head and a sweating glass of Four Roses bourbon in his hand, Randy Conkright offered up a surprise on Friday afternoon to his regular Republican drinking buddies on the patio at the American Legion post: He had signed up to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders speak that night. “I’m an American, and if I wanna go, I can go,” Conkright explained, while enduring some light ribbing from his friends. “I’m not going to heckle. I want to hear what he has to say, straight from the horse’s mouth.” As a working-class Republican dismayed with Washington, Conkright...
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