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U.S. Senate candidate David Trone apologizes for saying racial slur, says he was trying to say 'bugaboo'
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46% : Trone was discussing tax rates during a House Budget Committee meeting when he used an old slur defined by Merriam-Webster as "an insulting and contemptuous term for a Black person.
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