‘I’d rather fight than eat’: Meet the Democrat who could flip a district Trump won by 50 points

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A suit and tie isn’t Richard Ojeda’s preferred attire.

He’d rather be wearing combat boots, cargo shorts, and a T-shirt, but on this warm, rainy West Virginia day, Ojeda’s attending a forum on revitalizing the Appalachian economy, so he’s in a suit. And if the tattooed ex-Army paratrooper is elected to Congress in November, he’ll have to get used to it.

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