Early in her victory speech following a surprisingly comfortable 10-point margin in the Democratic primary for State Attorney General Sept. 13, Public Advocate Letitia James declared, “This campaign…most importantly was about that man in the White House.”
It might have seemed counterintuitive, given that if there was one issue on which she and her opponents—Zephyr Teachout, Sean Patrick Maloney and Leecia Eve—had been in lockstep, it was their determination to use the job to rein in President Trump’s excesses.
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