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We knew the real Matt Salmon was going to show up in this campaign.

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He is the guy we thought he was.

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We thought he was an adult, who if elected governor would act like a governor, not a Palm Beach adolescent.  

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He may have held Donald Trump’s coat on the campaign trail, but on the way out of the race he kicked his butt.

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The math wasn’t adding up, Salmon said in a written statement on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, numbers are numbers

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And it has become clear to me that the path to a first-place victory is no longer a realistic possibility.”

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What was really top of Salmon’s mind, however, was a different kind of math.

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On the day Salmon was graciously leaving the race, Kari Lake went on Fox News and put the bunny in the boiler.

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“I’m actually shocked and appalled that Fox News would take a defamatory story like that, and we are pursuing legal action against this drag queen,” she hissed at Bret Baier.

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Baier, the Fox anchor, was stunned. He had had the very terrible bad idea of asking Lake a real question.