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After all the intraparty melodrama last month over whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would run again, four candidates remain in the race to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee—among the most high-profile jobs on the Hill, and one that will be essential to the party’s messaging heading into the midterms and, if Democrats retake the majority, any future investigations into President Trump. The full caucus will make their choice on Tuesday, and many in the party are hoping to separate the race from the existential conversations that have ensnared Democrats since Biden’s debate appearance, if not for years—that they’re too old and too woke, out of touch with working people, obsessed with divisive and often marginal social issues, neglectful of broader societal shifts, etcetera.