Byron York suggests government shutdown left Democratic Party in ‘civil war’

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Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said he still sees a “fundamental divide” among Democratic senators following the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

“In the course of about seven or eight days, [Democrats] went from election euphoria to shutdown civil war to Epstein mania,” York said on Fox News’s Fox Report with Jon Scott. “But through the whole time, they still have a fundamental divide that they can’t solve, and that’s between progressive Democrats and everybody else.”

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