There are Markey clubs at every major college, Markey memes splattered across social media and phone banks around the country organized by the Sunrise Movement, the youth climate-change activists who coined the Green New Deal shortly before Markey endorsed it. “That’s why I got into this race,” Kennedy said in an interview. But among the white liberals who have swung the polling in this race, Markey built a lead and never looked back. Markey reached out to Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after her 2018 election, a decision that would eventually reinvent his image. In interviews last week, voters had little to say about where they disagreed with Kennedy or Markey.

Source: Washington Post September 01, 2020 21:11 UTC