The Democratic Debate Is Coming to Ohio, Where a Party Battle Is Already Underway

The Democratic Debate Is Coming to Ohio, Where a Party Battle Is Already Underway

Brooke LaValley for The New York Times

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Morgan Harper campaigned at the Prestige Cuts & Styles barbershop here, Joe Copeland, a retired school principal, said he had never heard of the young woman mounting an insurgent primary challenge of a Democratic member of Congress. But he thought of a comparison.

“Is this the same type of situation as with A.O.C.?” he asked.Indeed, there are similarities between Ms. Harper, 36, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, whose felling of a powerful House incumbent in 2018 was a shock alert to national Democrats of a populist wave.Ms. Harper […]

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