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A crucial governor’s primary just became Democrats’ biggest debacle

Move over, Maine. A new Democratic primary has taken the crown as the country’s most dysfunctional. | Manuel Agosto Moreno/Getty Images Move over, Maine. A new Democratic primary has taken the crown as the country’s most dysfunctional. In Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, a crowded field of establishment-tied Democrats has been splitting the vote for months, giving democratic socialist Francesca Hong’s energetic campaign a lane to the nomination. Recently, fearing Hong would lose the general election (and spooked by a seeming Republican effort to boost her chances), some in the party...