The Long and the Short of How This Debate Will Make History

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One swears he is 6 foot 3. The other vehemently denies she is 5 foot 2.

But Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Americans will witness the greatest height differential between presidential candidates in history in the flesh—and be left to wonder, what difference does it really make?

On the Republican side, former Pres. Donald Trump’s height has been an unusually present part of his biography—mostly because Trump’s actual height is open to argument.

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