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How Philly’s Black Moderate Mayoral Candidate Beat a Bernie Sanders/AOC-Backed Progressive

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Helen Gym had the national spotlight, but Cherelle Parker channeled New York’s “tough on crime” mayor Eric Adams and won.

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