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When Pope Francis said Friday that U.S. voters must choose between the “lesser of two evils,” he didn’t outwardly make a judgment between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, but said their rejection of immigrants and support of abortion rights, respectively, equally weighted down both. But put in context, the statement represented a bigger swipe at Trump, argued Nayyera Haq, former President Barack Obama’s senior director of cabinet affairs, in a panel on CNN. It is rare for the pope to discuss American politics, although he has taken veiled shots at Trump in the pa…

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