Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado dedicated her newly awarded Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump, praising him for his support of her fight for democracy and saying she accepted the honor "in his name and in the name of the Venezuelan people."

Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself.

Machado was awarded the prize, after she was nominated last year by a group that included then-Sen. Marco Rubio, who is now Trump’s secretary of state. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honoring Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship t

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