Heritage says Trump has surpassed Reagan. But does that make him the most conservative?

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Roll over Ronald Reagan. When President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address, he will do so as the most conservative president of all time. At least, that’s what the Heritage Foundation seems to think.

“You have to know how much that hurts my heart,” Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James said when asked on Fox Business whether the 45th president surpassed the 40th. “Ronald Reagan is a personal hero of mine but the facts are the facts, and the facts are that Donald Trump in his first year has completed about 64 percent of our Mandate for Leadership.”

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