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While Davis sometimes has been a reluctant candidate, Trible has shown no such wariness when it comes to ; running for public office. ; When he was 27 years old, ; Trible was elected com: monwealth’s attorney in ! Essex County, the first ' Republican ever elected to 1 public office there. Two years ' later, in 1976, he won the [ first district seat, which had 1 been a Democratic 1 stronghold. He was reelected
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But the bid for the Senate is perhaps the biggest gamble for the youthful Trible, who, according to polls, is running neck-and-neck with Davis despite the congressman’s early financial and organizational edge.
Economic issues have been a source of disagreement between the candidates. In a Feb. 26 interview, Trible said he had “full confidence’’ that the President’s economic program would work, and he reiterated that view a few weeks ago. Trible continues to stand by the President’s tax cutting policy, and has attacked Davis for the lieutenant governor’s suggestion that the third-year tax cut, scheduled for July 1983, should be deferred.
“We cannot tax our way to prosperity,” said Trible. “The problem is not that taxes are too low, but that we’re spending far too much money today.”
The first step toward lowering the federal budget deficit—estimated at between $100 and $155 billion next
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