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OPINION: Say goodbye to dirty primary campaigns

by JIM JONES/Guest Opinion
| April 24, 2024 1:00 AM

Ever since the Republican Party decided to close its primary elections in 2011, we have witnessed increasingly nasty, truth-deprived GOP primary elections. 

The most extreme candidates learned that they could win by using ugly smear tactics against reasonable, pragmatic Republican opponents in the low-turnout GOP primary. 

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