Republican Richard Painter to run for Senate as Democrat to thwart Trump

• Ex-White House lawyer and pundit to contest Al Franken’s old seat
• ‘Our democracy is at stake’ because of ‘autocratic’ president

Richard Painter, a Republican and former White House lawyer in the George W Bush administration, will run as a Democrat for the Minnesota Senate seat vacated by Al Franken, explicitly in opposition to Donald Trump and his “collaborators” in the Republican party.

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