• davidgro@lemmy.world
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    I don’t understand why they didn’t all just abstain.

    I get that it was a gotcha, like they were asked the classic “Have you stopped beating your wife?” But they not only failed to deny the form of the question, but also gave the worse of the two bad answers.

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Because they don’t actually think it’s worth standing up for principals when it could make them look bad to those who would never vote for them