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reACTIONary

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17. They don't run candidate, they...

Reply to NeoTrajan (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 08:23 PM

12 hrs ago

.... endorse them. They may (or may not) be a true political party, but they don't run candidates opposing democrats. They endorse a Democrat in the primary and then again in the election.

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