Tag: Us Elections
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Ossoff fuels reelection campaign with attacks on Trump
ATLANTA • Nearly a decade ago, Jon Ossoff was a 30-year-old Democratic congressional candidate promising Georgia suburban voters he would “cut wasteful spending” and make “both parties in Washington” be “accountable to you.” His Republican opponent even complained that Ossoff “talks like a Republican.” Nobody would make that mistake today. After losing that race in…
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Fetterman threads the needle after threat to abandon Democrats
The warning from U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania that he could leave the Democratic Party over its fading support for Israel comes with a large asterisk. It was a threat that prompted the centrist Democrat to spend much of Thursday clarifying to reporters in the halls of the Capitol. Roughly half of House Democrats…