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Why did Trent Lott resign as Republican minority leader in the Senate?

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Lott was subsequently minority leader (2001-3), resigning after he was widely criticized for remarks at a birthday party for Senator Strom Thurmond in which he implied that the United States would have better off if the 1948 presidential election had been won by Thurmond (who ran on a segregationist platform).

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