After 47 years in the House, is Don Young vulnerable?

Published September 1, 2020 8:52pm ET



The list of Rep. Don Young’s politically incorrect utterances over his 47-year House career is too long to recount. Eyeing November, Democrats think the Alaska Republican’s off-the-cuff approach will catch up with him just as swing-state polls show voters getting weary of President Trump’s incendiary style.

The House Democrats’ campaign arm is once again arguing that Young is vulnerable. It’s something it’s been trying since Young, now 87, first won Alaska’s lone House seat in a March 1973 special election.

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