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Defeated Pro-Trump Democratic Mayor is Down in the Dumps
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 20, 2017 02:39pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Alex Seitz-Wald |
| News Date | Sunday, May 21, 2017 04:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
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Last year, the mayor of a seen-better-days steel town in Western Pennsylvania became the poster child of President Donald Trump's appeal to white working-class Democrats. But he'll soon be out of work after a 26-year-old assistant band director at the local high school beat him in a Democratic primary.
Monessen Mayor Louis Mavrakis' outspoken support for Trump turned him into a media sensation. The 79-year-old former union organizer helped decode Trump's appeal in the Rust Belt on Sunday political talk shows and for major newspapers, where he was quoted saying things like: "If ISIS was to come to Monessen, they'd keep on going. They'd say someone already bombed the goddamn place." |
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