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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Politics
Katie Glueck

Inside the veteran candidate network fighting to remake the Democratic Party

RICHMOND, Va. _ Eight days after a Republican super PAC publicized confidential records of a CIA officer-turned-congressional candidate, national security experts were still seething.

So Seth Moulton took to his private Slack channel to offer some guidance to the House candidates he has endorsed, many of them military veterans who were horrified that Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger had been exposed.

"We usually think about how we're going to get hit in terms of whatever weaknesses we may have in our resumes, mistakes we've made in the past, etc.," the congressman wrote to his endorsees on the messaging platform, something he set up to dispense exactly this kind of advice. "But they go after our strengths. (Look at how Pelosi always attacks me _ on my motives for serving.)

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