Archie Parnell, a Democratic congressional candidate in South Carolina, has pushed back against calls for him to drop out of the 5th Congressional District race after his aides confronted him last week with court records showing he inflicted "acts of physical cruelty" against his ex-wife in the 1970s.
Some of the House Democrats in charge of getting their peers elected were completely unaware of an ongoing special election in South Carolina when asked by a reporter.
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