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Some on the left remain uneasy with former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE, even as progressive luminaries rally behind the presumptive Democratic nominee ahead of his general election battle with President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE.

Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.) has vowed to do everything he can to elect Biden after the progressive senator dropped out of the 2020 race last month, and former Sanders campaign officials have launched new groups with the aim of defeating Trump in November.

Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (D-Mass.) has said she’d be happy to join the ticket, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezAttorney says 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police suffered brain injury How language is bringing down Donald Trump Highest-circulation Kentucky newspaper endorses Charles Booker in Senate race MORE (D-N.Y.) says she will support Biden in the fall.

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But some other progressives remain skeptical and say the former vice president has a lot more work to do to ensure the left turns out for him in November.

“I don’t think [the Biden campaign is] anywhere near where they need to be right now with progressives,” said Chuck Rocha, a former senior adviser to the Sanders campaign who recently launched a group to encourage Latinos to vote for Biden.

“They can get there, but to say that it will require a lot of work is an understatement. It’s just too soon because of how it ended in a worst-case scenario for those of us who put our hearts and souls into this race, and then it abruptly ends and you don’t get to fight until the end because of the coronavirus and the Democratic establishment rallying behind Biden. It just leaves a lot of really bitter feelings.”

In an overture to the left, the Biden and Sanders campaigns are setting up joint policy working committees on the economy, health care, immigration, criminal justice reform, education and climate change.

The Biden campaign has reached a deal with Sanders that will allow him to keep hundreds of delegates at the Democratic National Convention this summer, ensuring progressives will have a presence at Biden’s coronation.

Biden has also moved to the left on a handful of issues promoted by Warren and Sanders, including tuition-free college, bankruptcy laws and lowering the Medicare retirement age.

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“They’ve done quite a bit to incorporate our positions,” said one prominent progressive. “I think we’ve moved forward quite a bit. That’s what we wanted all along.” 

Sanders has directly appealed to his young supporters to put aside their differences and support Biden.

The Progressive Turnout Project, Indivisible and the Human Rights Campaign all endorsed Biden this week.

But some on the left are still not sold.

Nomiki Konst, a self-identified democratic socialist and activist who has worked for Our Revolution and The Young Turks, said the unease about Biden is a common sentiment in her circles.

Konst said Biden’s campaign has been “invisible” since he became the presumptive nominee. She and others are upset with Biden for putting Democrats distrusted by the left in key positions within the campaign.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is acting as an outside economic adviser. And former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), is helping to lead the search for a woman to be Biden’s vice president. Dodd is a longtime lobbyist who was featured in a 1990 GQ article that described an incident in which he allegedly sexually harassed a waitress during a dinner with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) in the 1980s.

“I am disgusted about Chris Dodd,” Konst said. “I mean how out of touch are you? … I think we can make some real demands. Women’s groups should not be sitting silent.”

The appointment of Dodd comes as Biden has faced a sexual assault allegation from former Senate staffer Tara Reade, which has further troubled the left. There have been op-eds by some Biden critics calling on Democrats to replace him, and on Thursday, Reade called for Biden to end his campaign. 

Biden denies the allegation and top Democrats have rallied to his defense.

Some progressives view the “Me Too” movement as one of their greatest achievements and worry they’re sacrificing their credibility by siding with Biden over Reade.

“It’s about more than 2020, it’s about the long-term viability of Me Too, which is one of our few bright spots,” said one progressive strategist.

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Larry Cohen, the chairman of the pro-Sanders group Our Revolution, said Biden could make further progress with the left by picking Warren as his vice president. He said the group recently conducted an internal poll that found Warren was the overwhelming favorite to be Biden’s running mate.

Other Democrats point to polls showing Biden with near-universal support among Democrats to make the case that Biden’s critics on the left are a small group that is overrepresented in the media.

“I do think, of course, there are people who are yearning for someone else, but …they are over-represented in being noticed online, getting quoted, versus being mathematically huge,” said Democratic strategist Eddie Vale.

Still, there is some concern that if the hard left stays home or votes for a third-party candidate for president, it could tip the balance of close races in key battleground states to Trump.

“Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t a small fringe,” said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist. “I tend to think it is, but let’s not take the chance and white knuckle this to the end. Sanders would be wise to publicly make clear to the media that is supportive of him, to the media that continues to troll Joe Biden and his operatives, that they should stop sowing discord and get on board.”

Former Rep. Steve IsraelSteven (Steve) J. IsraelThe Hill’s Campaign Report: Bad polling data is piling up for Trump Biden faces new hurdle: Winning as front-runner The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden on the cusp of formally grasping the Democratic nomination MORE (D-N.Y.) said he’s confident Biden will be able to expand his support among progressives as the election gets closer and becomes a binary choice between Biden and Trump.

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“You have to fight in hand to hand combat for every vote, especially in battleground states,” Israel said. “Biden’s campaign started early, with Senator Sanders, to unite the party so that we’re not looking at four more years of Donald Trump. It’s an integration of consensus policies, structure and message.”

Some progressives say they’ve had enough of the division and that it’s time to move on to ensure that Trump is not reelected and that Biden is held accountable when he is president.

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“Putting aside the important Tara Reade story, I am so over this whining about ‘Bernie lost, Biden won.’ It’s over,” said Jonathan Tasini, a progressive strategist. “Let’s get our big boy pants on, focus on how deeply dangerous a second Trump term would be and embrace a productive, movement-building moment by plotting a serious unified effort to point to the failings of American exceptionalism exposed by the pandemic and oppose the worst policy aspects of a Biden administration that are sure to come.” 

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE is calling for an inspector general to investigate coronavirus stimulus loans given to large companies or political insiders. 

“Let me issue a warning right now to anyone who participates in a corrupt giveaway with President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE and his administration,” Biden said in a minute-long video released by his campaign in which he pledges to appoint a non-partisan inspector general to look into the matter. 

“I will direct her to review every stimulus loan given to any big company or political insider,” the former vice president continued. 

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Biden said his inspector general would have the authority to report any potential wrongdoing by “any company or executive” to the Department of Justice. 

Democrats and left-leaning groups have criticized coronavirus relief legislation, known as the CARES Act, which was signed into law last month by President Trump. 

They argue that provisions in the legislation that provided businesses with tax benefits were too broad. 

The language used by Biden is similar to Republicans’ rhetoric in 2009, when they criticized Obama administration loans under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act during the recession. 

–This developing report will be updated.

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) will not hold a virtual convention amid the coronavirus pandemic, chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said Monday.

“It’s quite a ways away, and there’s ample time for us to adjust, if necessary,” McDaniel told The Associated Press. 

In response to a question regarding the possible hacking of the Minnesota Republican Party’s online convention, McDaniel told the newswire “we will not be holding a virtual convention.” 

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The Minnesota Republican party said Saturday it was “forced to halt” its scheduled convention “due to potentially malicious interference with the servers used for our voting technology.” 

The RNC is scheduled to hold its convention in Charlotte, N.C., from Aug. 24-27. 

McDaniel told the AP the party will need to consult with the Charlotte mayor and North Carolina governor on logistics. 

In April McDaniel said the GOP was “full steam ahead” with a planned full-scale convention, renouncing an NBC report at the time that alterations were being considered. 

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced last month it would be moving its convention, scheduled to be held in Milwaukee, to August from its initial July date. 

Joe Solmonese, CEO of the Democratic National Convention, told The Hill on Monday that the DNC will adjust its plan as experts learn more about the impact the coronavirus is having.

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“America has changed because of coronavirus, and we need to change with it, but I’m confident we’ll be able to deliver a successful convention in Milwaukee this summer,” he added.

Most Democratic delegates said they don’t want to attend a full-scale convention amid the crisis, according to a New York Times report published Monday. 

Of the 59 delegates interviewed by the newspaper in the last week, just nine said they are planning to attend the convention. 

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Democratic officials responsible for the convention have outlined three contingency plans for the convention. Plans include potentially holding the full convention if health conditions permit, holding a mostly virtual convention with a limited in-person presence as well as possibly hosting an entirely remote convention, the Times reported.

The Trump campaign and allies of the president are reportedly looking for doctors to speak in support of the Trump administration’s efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus. 

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that GOP operatives discussed recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to the campaign’s cause during a May 11 conference call, audio of which was leaked to the AP by a progressive group.

The doctors sought out by the Trump campaign will endorse a view that state economies should be reopened as quickly as possible, a view often espoused by the president that has clashed with state leaders around the country.

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“There is a coalition of doctors who are extremely pro-Trump that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care,” GOP activist Nancy Schulze reportedly said on the call. “And we have doctors that are … in the trenches, that are saying ‘It’s time to reopen.’”

A Trump campaign spokesperson confirmed to the AP that the campaign was seeking medical professionals who supported the president’s efforts to reopen the country. 

“Anybody who joins one of our coalitions is vetted,” Tim Murtaugh said. “And so quite obviously, all of our coalitions espouse policies and say things that are, of course, exactly simpatico with what the president believes. … The president has been outspoken about the fact that he wants to get the country back open as soon as possible.”

“The purpose of campaign coalitions is to amplify and promote President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s accomplishments and point of view,” Murtaugh added to The Hill in an email.”The president has been outspoken about the fact that he wants to get the country back open as soon and as safely as possible because there are also health risks associated with a prolonged lockdown.”

“There are a lot of doctors who agree with that and support what the President has done to combat the coronavirus,” he continued.

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Numerous states have announced plans to reopen some nonessential businesses and public spaces in the coming weeks, though hard-hit states such as New Jersey have offered no exact timelines for some businesses to reopen.

Protests in several states have emerged urging leaders to end lockdown orders, though some have been met with counterprotests.

Updated at 11:50 a.m. 

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s reelection campaign accused Twitter of “political bias” after it added fact checks to two of his tweets regarding mail-in voting in California.

“We always knew that Silicon Valley would pull out all the stops to obstruct and interfere with President Trump getting his message through to voters. Partnering with the biased fake news media ‘fact checkers’ is only a smoke screen Twitter is using to try to lend their obvious political tactics some false credibility,” said Brad ParscaleBradley (Brad) James ParscaleMORE, Trump’s campaign manager.

The rebuke comes after Twitter slapped fact checks on tweets by Trump claiming without evidence that mail-in voting is particularly susceptible to fraud.

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“These Tweets contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots,” a spokesperson for the social media platform told The Hill, citing a recent blog post on misinformation policies.

The checks come as Trump continues to rail against mail-in voting, which several states are considering expanding to allow voters to cast ballots while following social distancing guidelines. The president has specifically targeted California Gov. Gavin NewsomGavin NewsomCoachella, Stagecoach canceled for 2020 Here’s where your state stands on mail-in voting Urgency mounts for a contact tracing army MORE (D) for working to expand mail-in voting.

“There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed,” Trump said in one of the tweets that was flagged for a fact check.

No evidence has emerged to suggest that mail-in voting is susceptible to widespread fraud.

Twitter’s warning, which urges users to “get the facts about mail-in ballots,” leads to a page on Twitter giving an explanation of the factual errors in the tweets as well as links to various outlets covering the tweets.

“Trump falsely claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to ‘a Rigged Election.’ However, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud,” it reads under the heading “What you need to know.”

“Trump falsely claimed that California will send mail-in ballots to ‘anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there.’ In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots. Though Trump targeted California, mail-in ballots are already used in some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nebraska,” it adds.

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Thursday that Republican officials have not submitted the proposal his office has requested detailing how they plan to handle health risks at the planned Aug. 24 national convention, raising questions about whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE will go through with his threat to pull the convention out of the state.

Trump has said that Cooper has until Tuesday to commit to allowing for a full in-person convention or he will consider holding the convention elsewhere.

Cooper said Thursday he’s open to allowing the convention to take place in a “safe way,” but that state health officials will first have to sign off on the convention plans to ensure they are in line with North Carolina’s coronavirus restrictions.

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“We’ve asked the RNC to submit plans to us, we’ve yet to receive any kind of plans,” Cooper said. “We’re not on any timeline here, we want to work with them and look forward to them submitting plans to us. We’ve yet to see them.”

North Carolina is in phase two of its reopening strategy, allowing indoor gatherings of up to 10 people.

However, Republicans insist that they are moving ahead with plans for an in-person convention that would draw thousands to the Spectrum Center in Charlotte in late August.

Cooper said that on Thursday, North Carolina had experienced one of its highest days of deaths and hospitalizations since the outbreak first began. The state is six days into its phase two reopening, and the governor said that the case count is up in part due to an increase in testing capacity.

Trump is pressuring Cooper for a quick response, arguing that the GOP is sinking millions of dollars into planning for the convention. On Tuesday, the president said Cooper has a week to decide.

GOP governors in Florida and Georgia, which have been more aggressive in reopening businesses, have already offered up their states as alternatives for the convention if it is moved out of North Carolina.

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“We’re talking about a very short period of time,” Trump said. “It’s a massive expenditure, and we have to know. Yeah, I would say within a week, certainly, we’d have to know. Now if he can’t do it, if he feels he’s not going to do it, all he has to do is tell us, and then we’ll have to pick another location.”

Cooper on Thursday did not directly respond to a question about whether he would know anything by next Tuesday.

But he said the state allowed a NASCAR race to take place in Charlotte on May 24 — although spectators were not allowed.

“We’re ready to hold the RNC convention in North Carolina in a safe way and for weeks and months the health experts in our office have had conversations with the people organizing RNC about how to have it in a safe way,” Cooper said.

“When NASCAR wanted to run in the race in North Carolina, we asked them for plans about how they’re going to run in the race in a safe way,” he added. “NASCAR submitted those plans to our health officials. Health officials gave feedback, they made some changes and ended up putting on a safe and entertaining NASCAR race. We hope the same thing can happen with the RNC convention.”

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Rep. Brian FitzpatrickBrian K. FitzpatrickBipartisan group demands House prioritize communities of color in coronavirus relief bill Fitzpatrick to face Democrat Christina Finello in key Pennsylvania House race Key races to watch in Tuesday’s primaries MORE (R-Pa.) is set to face off against Democrat Christina Finello in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District later this year.

Fitzpatrick won his primary by about 13 points on Tuesday with nearly all precincts reporting, though his lead has grown as mail-in ballots are counted. Finello, the deputy director of the Bucks County Department of Housing and Human Services, trounced her competition by nearly 55 points.

Fitzpatrick, who was first elected to the House in 2016, is a top target for Democrats after hanging on to his Philadelphia-area seat in 2018 by less than 3 points. 

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Finello has cast herself as an ally of everyday Americans.

“The middle-and-working class people of our country will be my priority,” she tweeted after her primary victory.

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Thank you to the voters of Bucks and Montgomery Counties for their desire for positive, impactful change. As your Congresswoman, it is simple: the interests of our district will always come first. The middle-and-working class people of our country will be my priority. pic.twitter.com/LQzRianEzF

— Christina Finello (@FinelloForPA) June 3, 2020

 

The Cook Political Report rates the race as “lean Republican.”

Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul of the website’s policy on copyrighted material.

The Team Trump account tweeted out a nearly four-minute long video that is narrated by a speech the president gave a few days after Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody.

In the video, the president can be heard lamenting the “grave tragedy” of Floyd’s death over images of Floyd and peaceful protesters mourning his death. 

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Later in the video, the president warns about “violence and anarchy” from “radical left-wing groups” over images of riots and looting. He also describes the vast majority of law enforcement officials as “devoted public servants” as the video shows images of police officers hugging civilians and people cleaning up graffiti and garbage in the streets.

The Team Trump video was retweeted by Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., before it was removed with a message that said: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”

This X 1000!!! https://t.co/aEiH5ZEIUx

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 4, 2020

 

The Trump campaign says it reached out to Twitter to ask who had complained about the video and how it had run afoul of the website’s copyright policy.

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“This incident is yet another reminder that Twitter is making up the rules as they go along,” said Andrew Clark, a spokesman for the Trump campaign. “From the dubious removal of the hilarious Nickelback video to capricious fact checks and manipulated media labels to questionable claims of copyright, Twitter has repeatedly failed to explain why their rules seem to only apply to the Trump campaign but not to others. Censoring out the president’s important message of unity around the George Floyd protests is an unfortunate escalation of this double standard.”

A Twitter spokesperson told The Hill they received a complaint from a copyright owner of at least one of the images in the video, although it’s unclear which one. Harvard University’s Lumen Database, a third-party research group Twitter uses to study cease and desist letters, reviewed the complaint and found it to be valid under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The DMCA is one of the few sections of the law that social media platforms can be held liable for if they do not remove infringing content. The U.S. Copyright Office has said in a report that it recommends a policy for social media platforms that “provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscribers and account holders of the service provider’s system or network who are repeat infringers.”

Twitter’s latest move to sanction the Trump campaign’s content comes amid heightened tensions between the social media giant and the president. 

Last week, Twitter appended a fact-check to one of the president’s claims about mail voting fraud.

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The president responded with an executive order directing the federal government to consider stripping some of the legal protections afforded to social media platforms.

Republicans are concerned by what they view as liberal bias in Silicon Valley and an effort by the tech giants to tilt the playing field toward Democrats in an election year.

The Trump campaign has complained about what it describes as Twitter’s arbitrary standards and liberal fact-checkers that they say are being used to challenge normal-course political statements.

Democrats are on heightened alert over the spread of misinformation after the intelligence community determined that Russian agents used Twitter and Facebook to spread propaganda aimed at influencing the outcome of the 2016 election in favor of Trump. 

Democrats are demanding that social media giants crack down on false or misleading political speech.

Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot ZuckerbergHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook Biden campaign calls on Facebook to change political speech rules MORE has said his website will not get into the business of fact-checking or removing most political content, infuriating Democrats.

Twitter has been more aggressive in fact-checking and removing content that it deems to be misleading or manipulated.

Rep. Susie LeeSuzanne (Susie) Kelley LeeMORE (D-Nev.) has won the Democratic primary in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District as she seeks a second term.

Lee, who won her first term in 2018 in an open race, defeated her nearest Democratic competitor by about 74 points with just more than 51 percent of precincts reporting on Wednesday morning.

The GOP primary has yet to be called, but the party is eager to flip the Las Vegas-area seat.

Lee won the race by about 9 points in 2018.

The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, rates the race as “lean Democratic.”

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A 56-6 thumping of Luverne by the Wabasso/Red Rock Central wrestling team gave Bobcats co-head coach Gary Hindt his 700th career victory Saturday at the Luverne Duals, making him just the third coach in Minnesota state history to reach the milestone.

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