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In this July 6,2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally in Portland, Maine. Sanders is packing 'em in: 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin. More than 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Another 7,500 this week in Portland. The trick for the independent senator from Vermont is to turn all that excitement into something more than a summer fling.( (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

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A protestor faces a line of police during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland April 27, 2015. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

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