OMAHA, Neb. — I’ll take the #bluewave for $300.
That’s the powerful title for the fundraiser being held here in an Irish pub just down the street from Boys Town. The centerpiece of the evening is a barroom game of “Jeopardy,” played by three onetime Omaha-area “Jeopardy” contestants, and the beneficiary, a Democratic challenger in a House district that Donald J. Trump barely carried two years ago, is at a table explaining why she favors a Medicare-for-all health plan.
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