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Rep. Steve King gave a tepid defense of Todd Akin Monday, while every other Republican in the universe was pushing him toward the exit. King also may have stirred up a controversy of his own: “I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” he told an Iowa reporter who asked about pregnancies as a result of statutory rape or incest.

Evan McMorris-Santoro has the story.

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