💬 Opinion 16h ago · Daniel J. Flynn

A Modest Proposal Explaining the Midterm Rout

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Donald Trump implored voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot.”
To that end, he held an unusual midterm Republican National Convention in Dallas dubbed Trumpapalooza in which he spoke on both nights and feverishly visited 29 campaign stops in the final month of the campaign. The electorate, despite seeing that much of the president, rejected his message and voted for his opponents. Democrats added five governorships, netted at least six and maybe as many as nine U.S. Senate seats, and added an

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