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Related: About this forumThis Ohio congressional race is in the national spotlight. Voters say it's more than a test for
This Ohio congressional race is in the national spotlight. Voters say its more than a test for DemocratsAt first glance, the special election in Ohio's 11th Congressional District has all the ingredients for a referendum on the state of the Democratic Party.
Former Ohio Sen. Nina Turner built a national profile working on Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and is backed by members of the "Squad" in Congress. Shontel Brown, chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, secured endorsements from Hillary Clinton, U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and the mother of former U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge.
The progressive versus the establishment a tale as old as time. In this case, though, there's more to the story.
While the race highlights fissures within the party heading into 2022, observers say there will be few lessons to learn from an off-year special election that's expected to generate low turnout.
Read more: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/07/15/ohio-11-th-district-special-election-democratic-primary-nina-turner-and-shontel-brown/7885317002/
(Columbus Dispatch)
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TexasTowelie
Jul 2021
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nycbos
(6,352 posts)1. Help help I'm being repressed.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,392 posts)2. Vote Democrat, ferchrisakes....
We can deal with the fringest of the Left, because they are far saner than the fringe Right that occupies the Republican Party today.
PortTack
(34,657 posts)3. Nina wouldn't end up being progressive. She would purposely try to block everything that
Biden wants...shes trouble
questionseverything
(10,153 posts)4. Brown believes in bipartisan and incremental change
Rolls eyes
Her and manchin would make quite a pair
George II
(67,782 posts)6. Seriously?
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,549 posts)5. The Cleveland Clergy has come out to denounce the lies Nina Turner