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Mon Oct 24, 2016, 02:49 AM Oct 2016

Polite, partisan debate in lopsided Murray-Vance Senate race

In his campaign for U.S. Senate, Republican Chris Vance has leveled more intense criticism at Donald Trump than he’s aimed at his opponent, Democratic incumbent Patty Murray.

An early member of the GOP’s Never Trump faction, Vance has called the party’s presidential nominee appalling, dangerous and un-American — just in the last month.

During Sunday’s second and final televised debate in the Senate race, Vance’s strongest critique of Murray was that after 24 years in office she’s the kind of entrenched partisan responsible for congressional dysfunction.

“Senator Murray is a wholehearted supporter of Hillary Clinton’s, and I’ve yet to hear her criticize Democrats for anything,” Vance said during the debate at Microsoft’s Redmond campus.

Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/polite-partisan-debate-in-lopsided-murray-vance-senate-race/

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