Democrats won control of Congress, a majority of governorships and more in a massive midterm rebuke of President Trump. In doing so, they pulled off a feat that has bedeviled them for years: uniting around a message—affordability.
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- WSJ reports: “A Democratic Party riven with division unified around an economic message and avoided previous pitfalls.”
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