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Commentary: Democratic Party’s Anti-Trump Position Fractures Over U.S. Airstrikes on Syria

April 10, 2017April 9, 2017 Tennessee Star Staff

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The left’s united anti-Trump front has fractured over the airstrikes on Syria, dividing establishment Democrats who applauded the military action and antiwar progressives alarmed about the specter of greater Middle East involvement. Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, an independent who ran for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, broke with the Democratic…

Tennessee’s Congressional Delegation Backs Syrian Airstrikes

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 Wendy Wilson

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Tennessee’s Congressional delegation is supporting the airstrikes in Syria ordered by President Trump and carried out on Thursday. Both United States Senators from Tennessee and all nine members of the delegation from the Volunteer State in the U.S. House of Representatives–seven Republicans and two Democrats– in public statements late Thursday…