‘A living hell’: Incoming congressman claims party bosses threatened to sink his career

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Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-OH), who flipped a GOP-held House seat last week, dropped a bombshell Tuesday when he claimed that “senior” House Democrats had threatened to make his life “a living hell” if he bucked party leadership. “It’s starting to get real over here,” Leonard said in a video he published on Instagram. A first-time candidate and former Ohio State University professor whose political views have been categorized as progressive, Leonard has broken with party leadership on Israel and campaign finance. He claimed to have conditioned his support for House Minority Leader Hakeem…

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