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Hello. Welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jackaman Managing Editor Micah Utrich.

Julia Salazar is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in New York City

who ran for New York's State Senate last year.

She drew what I think we can safely say was an unprecedented amount of scrutiny,

especially in a statewide race, from local, national, and even international outlets.

I wondered at the time how much of that scrutiny came from inconsistencies in her

biography and how much of it came from right-wing forces marshalling a large amount of

resources to do opposition research on her to literally comb the country and

the globe for any piece of information that could be used as a bludgeon against her.

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