Republicans across the most competitive House and Senate races have settled on a closing pitch ahead of Election Day: Democrats are too extreme to be given control of Congress
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- WSJ reports: “The GOP sees transgender athletes in women’s sports, border security and socialism as keys to convincing voters that Democrats are too extreme.”
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