"I was born a poor, black child …"

Or so Steve Martin says, in The Jerk. And all the GOP, apparently, can personally relate to that, given how humble their beginnings were, or the beginnings of their families, or the beginnings of people they know. And, regardless, there are people hurting that they can relate to, because they were once very, very poor. #ddtb

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Republicans Want You To Know That They Were Once Very, Very Poor
No modern American political campaign would be complete without the candidates insisting, repeatedly, that they come from Very Humble Backgrounds, and no one likes insisting that they used to be poor …