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On 6 August 2016, as the Donald Trump campaign was focusing efforts on North Carolina, the Charlotte Observer published an article reporting that in a shocking turn of events, the GOP candidate had dropped out of the 2016 presidential race and endorsed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton: The article left many readers puzzled, as the Charlotte Observer is a legitimate news publication and not a fake news site through which stories of this ilk are typically published. However, those who are not regular readers of the Observer may not know that the newspaper does occasionally print satirical articles in their Viewpoint section, and since this particular piece was not specifically labeled as satire, many who encountered it mistook it for real news. As of this writing, though, Donald Trump is still the 2016 Republican presidential nominee: Rumors claiming that Donald Trump had dropped out of the presidential race have circulated in the past and some political insiders have speculated that he could drop out if losing was inevitable. However, Trump's campaign is still moving forward.
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