Don Bacon is the friendly dad next door who also happens to be a retired Air Force brigadier general and congressman. He’s quick with a pun — he likes to tell Jewish audiences he’s the most kosher bacon they’ll meet (or is it “meat”?) — and says he wishes he spent more time with his kids when they were younger.
Bacon acknowledges his brand of pragmatic politics that prizes compromise and decency may be a bit of a throwback in these aggressively partisan times. But in an interview last month with CQ Roll Call, the Nebraska Republican said that’s what voters — at least, swing voters in the suburbs — want.
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