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🇺🇸🗳️ He's not running, but Donald Trump has thrown himself into the midterm election campaign with unprecedented gusto, staking his kingmaker reputation -- and political future -- on a slew of controversial candidates
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🇺🇸🗳️ Graphic explaining the US midterm elections
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🇺🇸🗳️ The US midterm elections were once seen as a likely landslide victory for Republicans, but with a month to go, Democrats are banking on a much closer contest with control of the Senate likely to come down to four key states
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🇺🇸🗳️ Composition of the outgoing US House of Representatives and the Senate and projections for the November 8 midterm elections by RealClearPolitics
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🇺🇸🗳️ As Democratic and Republican nominees duke it out in the final weeks of the campaign trail, here is a guide to what's at stake in the US midterms
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