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...Former CIA agent Valerie Plame's status as a shoo-in to win a congressional seat in northern New Mexico is now deeply imperiled amid charges she's an outsider from Washington who knows too little about the district she seeks to represent.
...Plame is running in the Democratic primary to replace Democrat Ben Ray Lujan, the highest-ranking Hispanic lawmaker in the House, in the state's 3rd Congressional District, home to 15 Pueblo tribes and the Navajo and Jicarilla Apache nations, with a 41% Hispanic and 19% Native American population.
...Where Plame might benefit, Sanchez said, is from the high number of Hispanic entrants into the race, splitting the Hispanic vote in an election where Anglo turnout is expected to be high.
...Foot on the pedal, Plame careens backward down a dusty New Mexico road, calling out Scooter Libby, who President Trump pardoned in 2017, for outing her CIA cover.
...Plame rebutted accusations of anti-Semitism, telling the New York Times in an interview that her grandfather's Ukrainian Jewish family was "Right out of Fiddler on the Roof.".
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