(The Center Square) – Massachusetts’ Sen Elizabeth Warren, supporter of the Zohran Mamdani socialist view for their party, campaigned alongside U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper on Saturday night at the annual convention of the North Carolina Democrats.
Invited as the keynote speaker, Warren said in part, “North Carolina, the rest of the country is counting on you.”
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