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Rigged Democratic Primary? That’s How Elizabeth Warren Became A Senator in the First Place

November 15, 2017

There were six other candidates for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate back in 2012, notes Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas, but then-governor Deval Patrick “persuaded” five of them to drop out. The other one, Marisa DeFranco, a tough-talking progressive who would have given Warren a tough time in a debate, stayed in the race through the state party convention, where Patrick strong-armed delegates into denying DeFranco the 15 percent she needed to make it onto the party’s primary election ballot.