Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.
The protesting students say that the change will deter young candidates and people from historically marginalized communities from running for office.
“As College Democrats, we did a lot of work to build the new Democratic majority, This is a policy that’s going to silence
a lot of voices like ours.”
a lot of voices like ours.”
Hank Sparks, the 20-year-old president of the Harvard College Democrats, which is spearheading the boycott.
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