Patrick Roath, a Boston-based attorney and voting rights advocate, is launching a primary challenge to 13-term US Representative Stephen Lynch in Massachusetts’ Eighth District, joining the scores of younger candidates nationwide seeking to topple longtime Democrats in the wake of President Trump’s re-election.
Roath, a 38-year-old Democrat and first-time candidate who previously worked for former governor Deval Patrick, says he’s seeking to bring fresh energy to Washington in a moment when Democrats are regrouping following a devastating election year that swept Trump into the White House a second time and left Democrats in the minority in both chambers of Congress.
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