Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“National Republicans have dispatched staff to Massachusetts to assist with the Senate special election that has become tantalizingly close,” Roll Call reports.
The NRSC “has committed at least four staffers to help nominee Gabriel Gomez in the final weeks of the June 25 contest. The moves come amid fresh polling that showed Gomez running just behind Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey in this solidly Democratic state.”
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