These Veteran Candidates Are Attacking Vets’ Health Care

In this crucial midterm election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a fifty-year-old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vets to run for office, is playing the vet (and youth) card in his September 1 primary challenge to nearly eighty-year-old Senator Ed Markey. “We can’t just have people who seem like tired old…