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Although there's been protests in St. Paul as the Republican National Convention resumes at the Xcel Energy Center, the media is far removed and isolated from the scene. It makes you wonder how effective the protests are. Unless you're caught up in it, you have no idea it's happening. I didn't know and Geof Levine didn't know about them until hearing about it on the news.
Today, we're tagging along with the North Carolina delegation to Lake Minnetonka, which Prince made famous in his 1984 movie Purple Rain, to hear from Sen. Richard Burr.
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