Donald Trump racked up an enormous lead in the early vote for Louisiana’s Republican presidential primary. The tally just before election day was 47 percent for Trump, 23 percent for Ted Cruz and 20 percent for Marco Rubio.
But the final tally looked almost completely different. That’s because early voting in Louisiana took place Feb. 20-27, mostly before Trump’s awful debate performance on February 25. And all of the early votes were before Feb. 28, when Trump pretended on national television that he’d never heard of the state’s least popular resident, David Duke, or the Ku Klux Klan.
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