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Many Bad Signs for Republicans

September 9, 2018 · 7:37 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Jonathan Swan: “My colleague Mike Allen, who’s covered a few midterm elections in his time, says it’s rare to see so much evidence of a trend accumulate so many months out, only for all the signals to be proven wrong… The signals look every bit as bad for Republicans as they did for House Democrats when they got wiped out in the 2010 Tea Party wave.”

Said one GOP operative: “Every metric leads you to one conclusion: The likelihood of significant Republican losses in the House and state/local level is increasing by the week.”

“The depth of losses could be much greater than anticipated and the Senate majority might be in greater peril than anticipated.”

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