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Can moderate Democrats rise again? The answer may be in Ohio

MANSFIELD, Ohio - If the thick New England accent did not already reveal that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was not from around here, the polemic he launched into at a campaign rally in a union hall did.

"We have an administration that is reckless," Walsh said, attacking President Donald Trump's foreign policy. "It is reckless."

That's not the approach that Danny O'Connor, one of the congressional candidates Walsh was here to boost, typically takes.

"No one asks me," O'Connor says about Trump's unorthodox approach to diplomacy. "I love asking people, 'What are you worried about? What keeps you up?' It is, 'My social security, my health care.' It is economic opportunity, student debt. If that is what people are telling me they are worried about,

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