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'Can’t find a silver lining': Trump leaves GOP with nowhere to turn
What happened
AlterNet reports that President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings were weighing heavily on Republican candidates in the closing weeks of the midterm campaign. Polls cited in the report placed his approval between 32 and 38 percent, gave Democrats an eight- or nine-point advantage in congressional preferences, and showed especially weak public confidence in his handling of affordability.
Republican candidates had responded by emphasizing local issues and their own records, particularly as voters faced cost-of-living pressures, tariffs and higher fuel prices amid the continuing…
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