In Alaska race, Trump targets a long, sometimes sordid political tradition of ‘spoiler’ candidates
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By investigating an Alaska Democratic Senate hopeful over her campaign’s reported involvement in recruiting a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent, President Donald Trump’s administration is targeting a political trick that has been used in American politics for decades. The practice goes back at least to 1946, when a four-term Boston city
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- In Alaska race, Trump targets a long, sometimes sordid political tradition of ‘spoiler’ candidates
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In Alaska race, Trump targets a long, sometimes sordid political tradition of ‘spoiler’ candidates
By investigating an Alaska Democratic Senate hopeful over her campaign’s reported involvement in recruiting a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent, President Donald Trump’s administration is targeting a political trick that has been used in American...
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