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Rep. Mia Love: ’My job is not to walk in lockstep’ with Trump

Washington • Still fresh off an election defeat, Rep. Mia Love said Tuesday that she doesn’t regret calling out President Donald Trump after losing and that the president doesn’t understand the problem that Republicans have with women and black voters.

“Obviously not,” said Love, a Republican and the first Haitian-American to be elected to Congress. “That really is a given.”

At Politico’s Women Rule Summit, Love pushed back on Trump, who blamed her loss to Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams on the fact she “gave me no love — and she lost.