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Back to EpisodesHow Gaza Became the Biggest Issue in Philly’s Congressional Race
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A congressman representing about half of our city is retiring, so Philly is getting the rare chance to fill an open seat with a new congressional representative. In recent weeks the campaigning in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District has gotten heated, and the issue that keeps coming up again and again is Gaza, Israel, and the use of the word “genocide.” Today on City Cast Philly, Anna Orso, political reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, explains how a war halfway around the world came to dominate the May 19th Democratic primary in Philly.
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