I still can’t get over the fact that this white man, who won a trump +10 district, defended defund the police better than any DSA member or “progressive” has since 2021.
Axios: The incoming House Democrat already rocking Capitol HillView quoted post on X
Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-Ohio) hasn't been sworn in yet, but he's making a name for himself on Capitol Hill as one of the most outspoken anti-establishment progressives in the incoming freshman class.
That's an unlikely position for a Democrat who represents a rural Ohio district that President Trump carried by 10 percentage points in 2024.
Leonard is archetypal of a burgeoning breed of swing-district House Democrats — populist in style, receptive to left-wing policies and unbound by traditional political norms — that will be well-represented in the 120th Congress.
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