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The Bannon-Priebus Buddy Act

Two top White House advisers put on a show of unity at a conservative conference, in a dialogue that served to highlight their differences.
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

OXON HILL, Md. — White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon want it to be known that they are on the same page.

But a joint appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday only served to further highlight the contrast between Priebus’s pragmatic establishment views with Bannon’s in-your-face nationalism. Their joint interview onstage at CPAC was

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