In the year since Ruben Gallego won a U.S. Senate seat, he has shown that old maxims about freshman senators being seen and not heard no longer apply.
In a span of four days in October, the Arizona Democrat took to national TV and called American military strikes in international waters “murder,” rejected political norms in the age of President Donald Trump and joked about using “Trump coins” during the government shutdown.

 Arizona Republic

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