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- Tuesday’s special election results should put fear in the hearts of Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
- And they should make Democrats reconsider how much they need to fight about the future direction of the party.
There’s been a lot of either-or argument over what the future of the Democratic Party should be. Should Democrats seek to build a coalition of college-educated suburbanites plus white urbanites and minorities, or should they try to win back blue-collar white voters who have fallen away from the party in recent decades?
In the special election on Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, a place where President Trump won by 20 points in 2016, likely winner Democrat Conor Lamb showed Democrats don’t have to choose. He managed to do three things at once:See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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- ‘Conor Lamb is gonna win’: The knives came out for Republican Rick Saccone before votes were even counted in Pennsylvania
- ‘There’s a lot of people who are woke’: How anti-Trump fervor and a hyper-focused candidacy led a Democratic candidate to the cusp of an unthinkable upset
