Why 🦄 UsSenateElections picked: Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, said that it is “unfortunate” that Jewish Mainers don’t call the war in Gaza a “genocide.” He later apologized, saying that the word genocide “carries particular weight” given the Holocaust.

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