Steele vows no negative campaigning, if Democrats do the same

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Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings is urging Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele not to do negative campaigning in the race for U.S. Senate, and Steele promised he would if Democrats would stop their “racist, partisan attacks” on him.

At a Washington fundraiser for ex-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume on Tuesday, Cummings was asked about the good words Steele has for Mfume, whom Cummings succeeded in Congress.

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