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The Real Reason for Joe Kennedy’s Historic Senate Primary Defeat

The three main reasons I’ve heard in the media for Joe Kennedy III’s defeat: not a clear enough campaign message, didn’t go negative soon…

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Sep 04, 2020
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Joe Kennedy (Left) and Ed Markey (Right). (Official Portraits)

The three main reasons I’ve heard in the media for Joe Kennedy III’s defeat: not a clear enough campaign message, didn’t go negative soon enough, didn’t go far enough left.

But those three reasons are weak because Kennedy started with a 10-point lead in the polls so the onus was on Markey to d…

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