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Empty seats at Trump's 'low energy' rally 'in solidly Republican' area exposed by reporter

President Donald Trump took his midterm push to deep-red Northern Kentucky on Saturday. Video from inside the arena showed plenty of empty seats. Nandita Bose, a White House correspondent for Reuters, posted footage from the rally in Highland Heights, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. It showed large sections of empty seating, with much of the…

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