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Thu Nov 3, 2022, 07:55 AM Nov 2022

Political Candidates Choke on Food, Drink Issues: Crudites, Corn Husks, Ice in Beer

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Political Candidates Choke on Food, Drink Issues: Crudités, Corn Husks, Ice in Beer

Voters may forgive lapses over policy details but they don’t forget such missteps as eating pizza with a fork or grocery shopping without a basket

By Kristina Peterson
https://twitter.com/kristinapet
Nov. 2, 2022 10:22 am ET

For decades, Joe O’Dea poured his beer over ice in peace. Then he ran for the U.S. Senate.

Controversy bubbled over when word spread that the Colorado Republican sipped Michelob Ultra in a glass of ice during an interview. The partisan outrage spilled in a state awash in craft breweries, 428 at last count.

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