The New York Times on Tuesday examined how former Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) came to concede that a campaign against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary "would be a brutal fight dominated by endless debates about when he began paying taxes as a New Yorker and the sincerity of his support for gay marriage and abortion rights." After weeks of courting Democratic donors and traveling the state to meet with voters, Ford announced on Monday that he would not challenge Gillibrand in the primary...

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