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Republicans Panic as Trump Becomes Midterm ‘Ball and Chain’

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Republicans are panicking about the forthcoming midterm elections, as the party is expected to see a wipeout at the ballot box, and President Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be helping. After tying themselves to Trump for over a decade now, some Republicans now fear that they have little room to distance themselves from the increasingly unpopular president. “I’m fearful that the president’s numbers are a ball and chain that will be hard to overcome,” said Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, a moderate Republican who is not running for re-election in his battleground district, told the New York Times. Read more at The Daily Beast.

First report: Jim Acosta: GOP insiders secretly admit they 'walked the plank' for Trump — alternet.org, 11d