UPDATE: Democratic candidate Aditya Pai, vying for the congressional seat in California, appeared to decide to call it a day on Thursday morning, only to change his mind eight hours later.
A Democratic candidate vying for the congressional seat in California appeared to decide to call it a day on Thursday morning, only to change his mind eight hours later.
“I sent it to some mentors and staff for perspective before getting back to work; it was never supposed to be shared.” He added, however, that the feelings expressed in the first email had all been true., Pai said he’d recently reached a breaking point. He’d done “a lot of soul-searching where I questioned the system,” as well as his own character, he said. In the end, there seemed to be only two options.
It took nearly a whole day for the correction to come out because he wanted to “correct the error without disavowing” his initial statement, according to Pai.The “silver lining” of the first email being sent out, as the second email framed it, is that it opened the floodgates for him to share “even more raw impressions with you soon.”, he added, “Our political process is so brutal, and I felt so much pressure to put up this veneer and to be somebody I’m not. And honestly, I’m done doing that.
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