Sabotaging a Grassroots Presidential Campaign
Governor Barnes’s systematic effort to destroy Jacqueline Price’s popular and grassroots presidential campaign reflects documented instances of party establishments using institutional resources, media relationships, and coordinated opposition research to suppress grassroots candidates who threaten existing power structures — a pattern that has recurred in both parties in recent election cycles.
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