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MAGA lawmaker's 'embarrassing' excuse for on-camera meltdown leads to ridicule

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) was ridiculed en masse Friday after the Maryland Republican doubled down on his outburst earlier this week in which he lashed out at his constituents for laughing at him and threatened a student journalist with arrest for recording him. “The digging ….. continues,” quipped MeidasTouch journalist Scott MacFarlane in a social media…

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