US Democrats Say Key to 2018 Election Wins Is Grass-roots Action

Yasmin Radjy finished graduate studies at one of the country's top schools, Harvard University, and began mobilizing local efforts in Virginia to elect Democratic, progressive candidates. Radjy said she soon learned that bookwork often doesn't equate to real life. "They [Harvard professors] taught me a lot of things that didn't work in [the election of] 2016," she said. She said a simple strategy would win the midterm elections for the opposition...

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