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Don’t let exaggerated fears stand in the way of nominating them

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May 14, 2021
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Democratic U.S. Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) speak prior to a memorial service in honor of the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Statuary Hall of the US Capitol, on September 25, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect the memoirs of working politicians to be searchingly accurate, so the self-serving aspects of Elizabeth Warren’s new book didn’t bother me as much as they did Jonathan Chait.

What did bother me, though, is the specific time she takes in the book to attribute her defeat to se…

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