Democrats are calling for an investigation after the National Archives admitted it had wrongfully released the military records of New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill .

The release revealed that Sherrill, a veteran, did not walk at her 1994 Naval Academy graduation because she did not report classmates had cheated on an exam. More than 100 midshipmen were implicated in the cheating, but the candidate was not herself accused of cheating.

The records were almost completely unredacted and were reportedly given to Nicholas De Gregorio, an ally of Sherrill’s opponent Republican Jack Ciattarelli, according to CBS News. De Gregorio — who had filed a Freedom of Information Act request at the behest of a Republican consultant in the Garden State — denied the Trump administration

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