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Texas Judge Carlo Key Flees the GOP: ‘These Are Not My Values’

‘It Left Me’

Carlo Key sympathizes with Republican ideas but says the right wing has taken over—and it’s not a ‘party of inclusion.’ Jamelle Bouie on what the GOP can learn from the defection.

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Judge Carlo Key

Carlo Key, a judge in Bexar County, Texas, has left the Republican Party, and he blames the Tea Party. “Rational Republican beliefs have given way to ideological character assassination,” says Key in a video announcing his switch to the Democratic Party, ahead of his reelection campaign.

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