He ran the Democratic National Committee, chaired Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential bid and is arguably President Clinton’s best friend and fundraiser, but that doesn’t mean Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is a liberal.

At least in his eyes. In McAuliffe’s first campaign email to supporters, he adopts the “mainstream” banner to charge that his likely opponent is part of an “extremists” movement with backward ideas.

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