Local Democratic delegates head to Chicago for national convention
“We have to win this election,” U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, told a crowd of 50 Saturday, Aug. 17, at a Democratic rally at Wooddale Middle School. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
A Parkway Village rally for the Memphis delegates showed the challenges Democrats face in turning out the votes in the November election.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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