Lisa Lerer
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Analysis: Down in the polls, Republicans embrace a familiar tool: fear (opens the original)
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DALLAS -- The photos plastered in the hallways were all of President Donald Trump. Jackets were bedazzled with his name. And the red hats dotting the audience on the floor of the convention hall were embroidered with MAGA, his indelible political slogan. And yet, at a gathering that fans and foes alike had nicknamed the "Trump-a-palooza," the president and his Republican allies spent more time whipping up fears about the specter of socialism, communism and even anarchy than they did trumpeting t
El-Sayed won a high-stakes Michigan primary. Now comes the hard part. (opens the original)
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For months, the Democratic establishment had issued increasingly dire warnings that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Michigan firebrand who had never won an election, would struggle to win a swing-state Senate seat that the party could not afford to lose. The state's governor, members of Congress and attorney general lined up behind his primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, a centrist from a swing district. They argued that she could win the kind of tough races that are a hallmark of this battl
'A slow-rolling disaster': Inside the implosion of the Platner campaign (opens the original)
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SULLIVAN, Maine -- They told him that he was "the guy." Last July, in a small town in coastal Maine, a couple of progressive, self-styled recruiters of economic populists showed up at the blue-shingled house of Graham Platner, a little-known oyster farmer and Marine veteran who lived largely off government benefits. They knew his name from local labor organizers and activists, and they had watched a video on the internet of him talking about oysters. Struck by his left-leaning ideology, his work
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