Senate candidate John James: Republicans need to improve messaging for ‘compassionate conservatism’

By Dominick Mastrangelo

Published March 2, 2020 5:19pm ET

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John James, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, warned Monday that Democrats were taking advantage of his party’s failure to connect with voters on economic issues.

“We as a Republicans haven’t done a good job going into our inner cities and going into our campuses and showing how conscientious capitalism, how compassionate conservatism works for Americans,” James said Monday on Fox & Friends. “Democrats are filling those vacuums with lies. We need to do better.”

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