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The most revealing political ads are the ones that require the candidate to have amnesia about her own votes. A new spot running in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District asks voters to believe that Democrat Susie Lee has been “working with both parties to end all taxes on tips.” It’s a warm, bipartisan-sounding claim. It also happens to be the opposite of what she did.
The policy the ad brags about — ‘no tax on tips’ — became law through the Working Families Tax Cuts, the Trump-backed legislation that actually delivered it. Lee voted against that bill . She didn’t just quietly oppose it, either.
She publicly dismissed the tax relief as “temporary crumbs,” a phrase that tells Nevada’s service workers exactly how much she thought their tip income was worth fighting for. Then the bill passed anyway, thanks to Republicans, the “crumbs” showed up in real paychecks, and Lee is now suddenly trying to pretend she’s been for it all along.
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