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The 'Torture Tour' trapping Republicans
What happened
AlterNet columnist D. Earl Stephens argues that Donald Trump’s campaign appearances were hurting Republican candidates shortly before midterm elections. He calls the schedule a “Torture Tour”: Republicans had tied themselves to Trump, could not restrain him and, in Stephens’s telling, were losing voters whenever he spoke.
The column describes Trump arriving in Anchorage, Alaska, on a Tuesday before planned appearances in Montana and Arizona. It claims Republicans faced trouble in several states and cites a reported 3.7 percent rise in prices in September, but it supplies no…
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