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Nasty Rhode Island governor rematch raises accusations of opioid peddling, nepotism and who’s the real outsider

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Four years ago, Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee was celebrating his narrow victory in the Democratic primary surrounded by supporters, when someone handed him phone — it was his opponent simply calling to concede.



“That’s not going to happen,” he said, waving the phone away. “Hang up on them.”



Now, the woman he dismissed, Helena Foulkes, is challenging him to a rematch. And McKee is desperate to avoid not only becoming the first U.S. governor to lose a primary since 2018 but also th

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