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Lamar Alexander Quits: The Senator’s Strange Power Play

I Quit!

By leaving his post in the Republican leadership, the electric-car-driving senator actually freed himself up.

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To understand why Sen. Lamar Alexander decided to leave the Republican leadership on Tuesday, look no further than his parking spot on Capitol Hill, where he keeps his Nissan Leaf, a plug-in electric car that most conservatives would dismiss as a Liberal-mobile.

Alexander gleefully defends his Leaf as the only choice...

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