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Patrick Murphy, Are Democrats doomed to lose Florida? Start work now to avoid national heartbreak in 2020.
Patrick Murphy, a senior fellow at Florida International University in Miami, represented Florida's 18th district in Congress from 2013 to 2017 and was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2016.
Are Democrats doomed to lose Florida? Start work now to avoid national heartbreak in 2020.
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