Rep. Steve Cohen Endorses Hillary Clinton For Secretary Of State
Posted on November 16, 2008 at 6:46 pmThe Memphis congressman explains why the woman he once compared to Glen Close’s character in Fatal Attraction would be a good shaper of foreign policy in an Obama administration:
If President Obama does indeed select Senator Clinton as his Secretary of State, he will be invoking Lincoln’s legacy in a profound way; and in the opinion of this Congressman, there could be no wiser choice for the post.
During his first year in office, President Obama will likely need to keep a laser’s focus on domestic issues as we try to climb out of the economic hole dug under eight years of President Bush’s financial policies. Therefore, it is absolutely vital to select someone with the experience, toughness, and depth of knowledge to handle increased authority in foreign policy and deliver on President Obama’s promise to the world; and who could be more qualified to manage the duties of the nation’s top diplomat than the internationally revered junior Senator from New York? She brings two decades worth of foreign policy experience, much of it on the front lines as First Lady during one of the most peaceful eras in U.S. history. Furthermore, she brings instant prestige and credibility to the position; no foreign leader would ever feel diminished sitting in the presence of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I have had the privilege to know the Clintons since their days in neighboring Arkansas, and I know of no one more intelligent and capable of tackling the enormous challenges we face abroad than Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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You’re A Racist All Day
Posted on October 24, 2008 at 9:36 amJake Ford, brother of Harold Ford, Jr., on his independent race for the Ninth Congressional district seat against white Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen:
Though Ford says comments he made earlier this year indicating the 9th District should be represented by a black candidate were misunderstood, he did say, “As far as I’m concerned, black people should vote together as a special interest group. If that makes me racist, then call me a racist all day.”
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The Era Of The Free Market Is Over?
Posted on September 20, 2008 at 2:37 pmThat is what Rep. Steve Cohen seems to be saying:
“Everybody’s pension, everybody’s job is at stake,” said Cohen. “Homes, mortgages, businesses, everything.” At stake, as Congress begins work this weekend on an emergency plan is nothing less than “preserving the American economic system.” Cohen said the current congressional session might be extended through “the end of October,” right up to the eve of the presidential election, in order to work out all the ramifications.
In the short run, Congress will assume a “massive” amount of debt stemming from the sub-prime mortgage catastrophe resulting in the collapse or near-collapse of several venerable Wall Street investment firms. In the long run, there must be serious reforms, “a change in the way the American people see their government,” Cohen said. “The whole idea of the free market is history.”
Cohen Down With Calipari, Not Lamar
Posted on September 15, 2008 at 2:02 pmJackson Baker has Steve Cohen’s explanation of his appearance at a fundraiser for Lamar Alexander’s Senate re-election effort:
Cohen cautioned that his appearance at the fundraiser shouldn’t be misconstrued. “Coach Cal is a good friend of mine. He’s ‘Mr. Memphis, as far as I’m concerned. So when he asked me to come by as a courtesy, I said I would.” The congressman noted also that he had appeared with Alexander at a joint press conference at The Med earlier Friday and that the fundraiser had occurred shortly thereafter.
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Lobbyists Are Bad, Mmkay
Posted on September 14, 2008 at 12:16 pmCongressman Steve Cohen and his “cerebrally abundant” colleague Congressman Jim Cooper held a conference call with some local reporters and journalists to talk about the pernicious influence of lobbyists in Washington, most specifically, John McCain and how Barack Obama will be changing all that when he gets elected President.
While the call was designed to promote this report about McCain’s connections to lobbyists, I thought it interesting that one of the few lobbyists mentioned by name, and certainly the only one mentioned on two separate occasions, was Vicki Iseman.
Calling her as “remarkably attractive,” Congressman Cooper referred to the “intervention” McCain’s staff had to hold to restrict this particular lobbyist’s access to the Senator. Interesting that one of the few lobbyists mentioned by name on the call was a female lobbyist that McCain has denied having an affair with.
Certainly, mentioning her twice and referring to her looks, was purely an accident and not a subtle attempt resurrect such rumors.
Another point of discussion by the Congressmen was, of course, Sarah Palin.
Congressman Cooper on Sarah Palin: “First they make fun of Barack for being a celebrity and then they put their own celebrity on the ticket. We need to talk about the debt and the deficit.”
Congressman Cohen on McCain’s Veep pick: “She wasn’t picked to to put “Country First”, she was picked to put McCain first. She was picked to put the right-wing first.”
Congressman Cooper on Alaska’s relationship with “pork”: “It’s the whole culture up there. They are on the dole from the federal taxpayer.”
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Rep. Cohen Says “Community Organizer” Is Being Used As A Racial Code Word
Posted on September 11, 2008 at 9:24 pmSean Braisted provides some commentary:
Oh, and it also seemed to be that Cohen was tacitly agreeing with Matthews that “community organizer” is code for black urbanite. I think most people, especially rural and suburban voters, just don’t know what the hell a community organizer is, and the Republicans think its funny. And really, that is not exactly their fault, because “community organizer” is such a broad term that just about anyone who gathers more than one person together to get something accomplished is a “community organizer”. The head of the PTO or a Cub Scout leader could be defined as such.
Obama was a faith-based community organizer who acted as the secular go between for a variety of predominately African-American churches in Chicago. He did various projects, including voter registration and issues based activism, and it wouldn’t be all that inaccurate to call him a political activist.
Sexist Steve?
Posted on at 9:36 amThe Guerilla women are starting to wonder about Tennessee’s most progressive congressman:
What is the matter with Steve Cohen? First he fires off a grossly sexist shot at Hillary Clinton. Now’s he’s exalting Obama by comparing him to Jesus and denigrating Sarah Palin by comparing her to Pontius Pilate. This is the best defense of community organizers Cohen can come up with? Already the embarrassing video clip below is running on Fox News. Does Cohen enjoy embarrassing the state of Tennessee?
The Real Nikki Tinker
Posted on August 17, 2008 at 11:33 pmDefeated Ninth District Congressional candidate Nikki Tinker strikes an apologetic tone over the religious and racially inflammatory ads her campaign ran against Steve Cohen — mostly because they didn’t work:
This is the real Nikki. You know Nikki is not into doing anything that would separate or divide our community,” she said.
But that’s exactly how some voters interpreted Tinker’s strategy, and in the end, hindsight is 20-20.
“If I’d had any idea that was the way it would have been interpreted, we never would have taken that approach,” she said.
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What Do You Want, A Medal?
Posted on August 10, 2008 at 11:13 pmEMILY’s List may have condemned the racially and religiously inflammatory advertising of Nikki Tinker in the final days of the campaign but Congressman Steve Cohen will not forgive and does not forget where his opponent got the money to attack him:
“I said it’s going to get dirty, there’s going to be some things said at the end that are going to be unbelievable,” Cohen said. EMILY’s List condemned one of the advertisements in the campaign’s final days, a move Cohen said wasn’t enough. “Their money is what paid for these ads. They raised [Tinker's] money.”
The group’s president, Ellen Malcolm, reached out after the primary, Cohen said. Malcolm “called me and she was trying to act like she’d done me some great favor by renouncing that [advertisement], and I said, ‘You know, the election was over. Your money that you got from your members who didn’t know what this race was about, didn’t know what my record was, didn’t know about this lady, you paid for those ads.’”
“The members of EMILY’s List are owed an apology from Ellen Malcolm for not having a better vetting process,” Cohen added.
Congressman Steve Cohen On The Passing Of Isaac Hayes
Posted on at 6:47 pmFrom Sharon Cobb:
“Isaac Hayes was our emissary to the world for over four decades,” Congressman Cohen said. “His music and his love of his fellow man transcended all racial boundaries. His contributions to this city and its culture were many, and his friends were even more numerous. I was fortunate enough to have him as my friend, and I was blessed to have his support in my most recent election.”
“His music, his talent, and his spirit will live on. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Adjowa and his entire family. He was a soul man and a great man, and like Moses, there will never be another.”
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Cohen Reacts To His Late Arriving Cavalry
Posted on August 7, 2008 at 6:12 pmSteve Cohen reacts to the love shown him by Barack Obama and Harold Ford, Jr. in response to attacks by Nikki Tinker carrying racial and religious overtones:
Reached in his car this afternoon, Cohen said he had not asked Obama to intervene in the 9th District race.
“I think the national bloggers and the national media have focused in the extreme amount of negative campaigning that has gone on here, especially in the last three or four days,” Cohen said. “There’s been a lot of calls for Obama to state his distaste for this.”
Cohen said he expects to win today’s Democratic Party Primary.
“The Memphis voter is much more sophisticated than the Tinker camp thought,” he added. “They’re going to vote on issues and character and achievement, and not on race.”
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Escape From Memphis: Harold Ford, Jr. On The Nikki Tinker Ads
Posted on at 2:48 pmEmily’s List and Barack Obama beat him to it, but, better late than never, Harold Ford, Jr. comments on the “Nikki Tinker” situation:
“Whenever race, religion or gender is invoked in a political contest, it generally means the candidate has run out of legitimate arguments for why he/she should be elected. Communities and nations are always made weaker when political figures try to divide us for political advantage. It is my strong hope that lessons will be learned.”
This is significant for many reasons beyond the obvious necessity of condemning religious and racial bigotry.
Rep. Steve Cohen and the Ford family have a very contentious history.
It was Cohen, after all, who, back in 1996, attempted to deny young Harold Ford, Jr. the Congressional district his father was attempting to bequeath to him as birthright.
Cohen lost and expressed his frustration that he had been beaten by a twenty-six year old law student, likely on the basis of name and race quite publicly.
Fast forward ten years to 2006, Harold Ford, Jr. elects not to run for reelection to the Ninth District Congressional seat and instead runs for U.S. Senate.
Steve Cohen steps up again to run for the seat and this time manages, as a white man in a majority minority district, to emerge from the Democratic primary.
In any other year, a win in the Democratic primary would be tantamount to a victory. Not in 2006. That year, Harold Ford, Jr.’s brother Jake, a candidate of dubious qualifications, stood in the way of Cohen’s election in the general — again because of his name and his race.
Jake was helped not only by his father, Harold, Sr. but by his brother’s silent support of a candidate not of his party while heading that party’s ticker.
The point being, there is no love lost here.
Witness Nikki Tinker’s financial disclosures which show maxed out contributions for both the primary and the general from Harold Ford’s new bride Emily Threlkeld. The new Mrs. Ford is not a Tennessee native so one can, at the very least, assume that Harold Ford, Jr. helped inform the decision to contribute.
Junior has always seemed both above the racial and machine politics of Memphis yet strangely trapped by them. Today, as he did in a smaller way earlier this year, Harold Ford was able to escape from “the rules of Memphis.”
Many outside of Memphis and Tennessee may criticize the tardiness of his comments here but the fact that a statement was made at all was a very, very big step for Harold Ford, Jr. and a significant event in Tennessee politics.
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That Armenian Was A Republican
Posted on at 1:27 pmInteresting tidbit from the MyDD. It seems that Armenian activist Cohen had to get crazy with was a Republican operative as well as a documentary filmmaker:
Now, it turns out that filmmaker Peter Mursurlian is actually a Republican operative who used to work for former California Congressman Carlos Moorhead (R) of Pasadena. Also, none of the other Tennessee Democrats are co-sponsoring the resolution either, but none of them have been targeted the way Cohen has been.
Time To Turn The Page: Barack Obama Rebukes Nikki Tinker
Posted on at 12:31 pmSean Braisted posts up Barack Obama’s condemnation of the campaign tactics of Nikki Tinker:
“These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics, and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee. It’s time to turn the page on a politics driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to lift up our communities and our country,” Obama said.
In light of this, I must ask again, where is Harold Ford, Jr. on this?
He rebuked his brother when he went off the reservation on the subject of race. Is what Nikki Tinker is doing somehow less offensive?
Does Harold Ford disagree with Barack Obama on Nikki Tinker — or not?
The Cardinal Sin: Tinker Removes Her Flirtation With Antisemitism
Posted on at 9:01 amWhile putting a progressive Congressman’s beside an image of Klansman with a burning cross would appear to be all in good fun, suggesting that same Congressman, a Jew, is an interloper in the Black community is not.
As of this posting, Democratic insurgent Congressional candidate Nikki Tinker’s infamous Nathan Bedford Forrest ad remains featured on her YouTube channel. An ad suggesting that Congressman Steve Cohen was preventing black children from practicing their faith, however, has been removed.
Keith Olbermann’s declaration of Tinker as “The Worst Person In The World” for her tactics probably didn’t help, but it was likely a rebuke from Emily’s List, her financial benefactor in both this and her 2006 race, that led to the video’s removal.
Post Politics has been unable to reach the Tinker campaign for comment at the time of posting.
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Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics In His Former Stomping Grounds?
Posted on August 6, 2008 at 11:00 pmAunt B. asks and answers her own questions on where Nikki Tinker’s money to create of those racially and religiously inflammatory ads comes from — but only partially. Yes, Tinker gets her money from Armenians. Republicans? I’m not so sure.
Regardless, one place we know Nikki Tinker did get her money from was Emily Threlkeld Ford, wife of Harold Ford, Jr. the former Congressman from the very district in question here.
In 2006, the year Cohen originally won his seat, Ford the U.S. Senate candidate was noticeably cold towards the candidate Cohen — and for good reason. His brother Jake, supported by Harold, Sr., was an independent candidate for the seat.
However, when his brother again filed to run against Cohen this year, again as an independent, declaring that the Ninth District should have a black Congressman, Harold Ford, Jr. condemned him in the harshest possible terms.
“It’s beyond concern. I want to make clear my brothers’ comments are not mine. I reject them. … I don’t believe any candidate’s fitness for office should be measured or determined by race or gender.”
Where is Harold Ford, Jr. now? This is not just one negative ad, it is a pattern. Nikki Tinker is attempting to divide Harold Ford’s former district along racial and religious lines. Where is the reprimand, the censure?
The blowback on Tinker has been significant. The rebukes are starting to roll in.
Post Politics has made its requests for comment formally to the office of Harold Ford and those requests have gone unanswered. I hate to get all Scenester on the issue but, in this case, I have to say, “Harold, call me.”
VIDEO: Cohen Breaks Bad With The Armenian Photogs
Posted on at 5:30 pmCongressman Cohen ejects an Armenian activist photographer from a press conference at his home scheduled to refute ads run by opponent Nikki Tinker designed to arouse racial and religious bias.
Questioning Whether Gray Has The Minerals
Posted on at 3:38 pmThe autoegocrat goes upside the head of Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Gray Sasser for his anemic response to the negative campaign tactics of Nikki Tinker:
The Nikki Tinker campaign and its surrogates have spent a few hundred thousand dollars and a tremendous amount of energy trying to portray an incumbent Democrat in good standing as a Jesus-killing atheist gay Jewish Klansman, and the chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party interprets this as “a commitment to civil rights which transcends partisan labels and political attacks.”
If this is the Chairman’s take on the craziest shit to come down the pipe since, oh, I don’t know, a member of the TNDP Executive Committee accused the Democratic presidential nominee of ties to terrorism, it will be very revealing indeed when Mr. Sasser finally does find something that puts a fire in his belly.
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Congressman Cohen To Come Back On Tinker
Posted on at 10:49 amFrom a campaign media advisory:
Congressman Steve Cohen will hold a press conference at his home at 349 Kenilworth at 11:30 AM to discuss the latest attack ad by Nikki Tinker’s congressional campaign.
Nikki Tinker, After Toe-Tapping Around Race, Moves On To Religion
Posted on at 8:03 amInsurgent Ninth District Democratic Congressional challenger Nikki Tinker, not content to sit back and reap the rewards from a racially divisive ad linking Rep. Steve Cohen to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, is now attacking Cohen on another front: religion.
In the ad, a child’s voice is heard praying while the narrator, clearly meant to be a black woman but not Tinker, wonders who “the real Steve Cohen is anyway” while questioning one of Cohen votes on school prayer while in the state Senate.
While he’s is OUR churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he was the only Senator who thought OUR kids shouldn’t be allowed to pray in school.
With all the talk recently in the presidential race about coded language and messages in political pitches, Tinker’s new ad will surely lead some to see an attempt to paint the Jewish Cohen as an anti-Christian interloper in his majority black and majority Christian district.
You Did See The Burning Cross In There, Yeah?
Posted on August 5, 2008 at 5:28 pmThe ad has made national news and been denounced by both those on the right and the left.
When asked for comment, however, the Tennessee Democratic Party treads carefully on the controversy over the use of Klan imagery by Nikki Tinker to attack Congressman Steve Cohen. From TNDP Party Chair Gray Sasser:
I hope all the candidates remain focused on the issues rather than personal attacks during the last few hours of this hard-fought campaign. Congressman Cohen and all the candidates running for the Democratic nomination in the Ninth District share a commitment to civil rights which transcends partisan labels and political attacks.
Tinker Acolyte Says Incendiary Ad Has Nothing To With Race
Posted on at 7:59 amWell, of course, not. Silly us.
Former Shelby County Commissioner Walter Bailey said Monday that the Nikki Tinker ad featuring pictures of a Ku Klux Klan rally and denunciations of incumbent Congressman Steve Cohen’s vote not to remove the statue and remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a Memphis park “has nothing to do with race.”
Asked if injecting the incendiary television images into Thursday’s 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary contest would be seen as racially divisive, Bailey said: “That may be an ancillary side of it, but that’s not the main focus, and it’s not the intended focus.”
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Their Sheets Are Used For An Entirely Different Purpose
Posted on August 4, 2008 at 2:07 pmThe Hill reports on Nikki Tinker’s new negative ad attempting to imply that Rep. Steve Cohen harbors some neo-confederate sympathies:
“It’s just a desperation effort that’s hard to fathom — that somebody would suggest that, particularly a Jewish person, was in any way involved with the Ku Klux Klan,” Cohen told The Hill. “The Klan didn’t exactly have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana services and invite us over for them.”
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Ku Klux Kohen: Tinker Goes To The Sheets
Posted on August 2, 2008 at 8:20 pmSupporters of Congressman Steve Cohen are outraged by a negative ad currently running on Memphis television criticising him for his refusal to vote for the excavation of the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest while a member of the Center City Commission:
Among the things that stuck in the craw of Cohen’s supporters, including several prominent ministers and public officials, was the ad’s juxtaposition of Cohen’s image next to those of Ku Klux Klansmen.
“For this ad to come up at the last minute is an attempt to divide this community racially. And this community isn’t going to be divided. We’re all in favor of our congressman, Steve Cohen,” said Myron Lowery, the longtime city councilman who, at the time off the most recent Forrest Park controversy, floated a compromise proposal for adding anti-slavery exhibits to the grounds of Forrest Park.
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Video of the ad in a TV news report
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The Fall Of The Machine
Posted on July 31, 2008 at 4:33 pmJackson Baker on why support from the Ford family for Nikki Tinker’s insurgent campaign against Rep Steve Cohen may not mean as much as it used to:
Ford Sr.’s power had always been based as much on keeping governmental channels open for influential whites in the larger community as on keeping the faith with his black constituents. His very legal predicament had stemmed from a long-term association with C.J. and Jake Butcher, the white East Tennessee bankers whose financial collapse and prosecution by the government had muddied Ford’s own waters.Tinker, who was the largely nominal campaign manager for Harold Ford Jr. in at least one of his uncontested election victories, no doubt hopes for some substantial intervention by the Fords on her behalf. And, in fact, one of the intriguing revelations of the second quarter’s financial disclosures was that Harold Ford Jr.’s wife had maxed out her contributions on Tinker’s behalf.
But the fact of the matter is that 9th District politics, like the Fords themselves, may have moved on to that post-racial world Wharton spoke of. Early voting totals in inner-city precincts have not thus far suggested anything like the saturation-style, directed voting of the past — perhaps because, in that part of the 9th District, as elsewhere, race may no longer be the single determinant factor it once was.
Our Bad
Posted on July 29, 2008 at 9:47 pmThe House of Representatives apologizes for slavery — thanks to Steve Cohen. Bob Tuke, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, wants in on the mea culpas:
“I am thankful for the efforts of Congressman Cohen and others in delivering this long overdue apology to the African-American community,” said Tuke. “It is my fervent hope and prayer that this resolution brings about another milestone in our nation’s effort to fight the remnants of prejudice and bigotry from an era of injustice. As counsel for Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and other clients, I have witnessed the African-American community overcome great obstacles to achieve ever greater accomplishments, and I hope that this progress continues as we pursue equality in all respects so as to become a united community.”
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Post Racial Politics
Posted on July 25, 2008 at 7:13 amShelby County Mayor thinks we are at the cusp of a new age:
”With Barack Obama, we have entered upon a post-racial world and a post-racial politics,” Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton said Wednesday, expressly agreeing with a conclusion of that kind offered by 9th District U.S. Representative Steve Cohen during the congressman’s recent televised debate with Democratic primary opponents Nikki Tinker and Joe Towns.
Wharton agreed with Cohen that his own two mayoral victories, Obama’s success in this year’s Democratic presidential-primary race, and Cohen’s congressional win in 2006 were all of a piece – each an instance of cross-racial voting. “He’s entitled to say that,” ventured the mayor, who said he took pride in such an analysis as applied to his own success.
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Determining Whether There “Is Or Isn’t Any Barnacle Status”
Posted on July 24, 2008 at 11:09 amRep. Cohen got the Attorney General to say “barnacle status”:
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Tennessee Lottery A Good Gamble For Steve Cohen
Posted on July 22, 2008 at 8:11 amFreshman Congressman and father of the Tennessee lottery, Steve Cohen, gets pro-gamblers to ante up for his campaign kittyL
Incumbent Steve Cohen went to a Las Vegas fundraiser last fall with Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and picked up checks from 10 professional gamblers, some with nicknames like Texas Dolly and Vegas Stud. Eight of the 10 gave the maximum allowed for both the primary and general elections, $4,600. One gambler’s wife also made a contribution as did the poker manager of the Bellagio casino.
The entire haul for the Nov. 19 event, including in-kind beverages: $64,188.
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Tinkering With The Math
Posted on July 18, 2008 at 7:39 amJackson Baker gives the 9th District Democratic Congressional Primary his signature treatment:
Tinker’s decision to run again this year is probably influenced more by simple mathematics than anything else. Having finished only a few thousand votes back of Cohen in a field of 15, most of whom (including Cohen himself) competed with her for the district’s black vote, why should she not, two years later, try to go one-on-one?
She has been designated as a “consensus” black candidate this time around by several holdouts for the idea that a black, and only a black, should represent the 9th District in Congress. Perhaps foremost among those is the Rev. LaSimba Gray, who led a failed effort to settle on such a candidate two years ago but whose choice this time around was almost a matter of default.
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