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Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence restated his running mate Donald Trump’s view that Russian president Vladimir Putin has been a “stronger” leader for Russia than Barack Obama has been for the United States. But in Tuesday’s debate with his Democratic counterpart Tim Kaine, Pence was much harsher in his assessment of Putin’s regime and the Russian political system than Trump has been.

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