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Voters in Pennsylvania Sent a Message to Those in Power. Will They Be Heard?
Progressives have been working to flip Pennsylvania's deep-red districts for nearly a decade. It's finally working.
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In 2018, covering our first midterm election, we followed the ultimately unsuccessful campaign of an electoral upstart named Jess King. King was a progressive candidate touting ideas like Medicare for All and a higher minimum wage in Pennsylvania’s deep-red 11th District. Her campaign seemed improbable at the time. Her opponent, conservative Republican Lloyd Smucker, had won his previous…
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