Progressive stalwart Ed Markey thrashes centrist challenger with Maine Dems

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News Summary

  • Seth Moulton, young, well-funded and endorsed by The Boston Globe's editorial board, ran the perfect centrist campaign.
  • He cast himself as generational change against Ed Markey, his 80-year-old opponent and one of the u.s. Senate's most progressive members.
  • Markey called for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, higher taxes on billionaires and abolishing ICE.
  • The other media mirage that evaporated was the idea that voters, especially younger ones, are unwilling to return elderly seniors to power.
Seth Moulton, young, wellfunded and endorsed by The Boston Globes editorial board, ran the perfect centrist campaign.

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