WCHL is a hyperlocal station and Chapelboro is a hyperlocal website, but these days everyone’s talking about national issues: guns, Donald Trump, refugees, Islam, “radicalization,” the state of the Republican Party, the state of the 2016 election, and the state of the national media – for starters.

WCHL’s Aaron Keck discussed some of those issues last week with Orange County Republican Ashley DeSena.

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