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The upset of 2020? Jaime Harrison push to oust Lindsey Graham central to US Senate battle

… state with two sitting African American senators ever. The … been represented by African Americans but never at … is the most influential African American Democrat in Congress and … Harrison said, pointing to African Americans leaving the “industrial midwest …

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