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Top Democrat defends party boosting Trump-backed candidates: ‘There are difficult moral questions’

The head of House Democrats’ reelection efforts on Sunday defended the party’s campaign tactics to boost pro-Trump primary candidates in an effort to give Democrats better chances in the general election.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, defended the practice against criticism from within the party.

“Absolutely [we did not] put party over country. The moral imperative right now is to keep the dangerous MAGA Republicans who voted to overturn our election out of power,” Mr. Maloney told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I understand that there are difficult moral questions, philosophical questions about tactics.