Democrats Nida Allam and Valerie Foushee are spending record amounts of money in a battle for North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District primary.
The most expensive Democratic congressional primary in North Carolina’s history seems illogical at first. It’s a fight between two candidates with an almost-identical platform and similarly high chances of winning the general election.
But at the core, the political battle between Allam and Foushee seems to be about the nationwide conflict between radical Democrats hoping to bring the party further left and party loyalists.
Although Allam and Foushee share a similarly radical platform, Allam has several campaign planks that seriously offset even traditional Democratic Party positions.
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