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Republicans have a huge fundraising advantage. Will it matter?

Polls and pundits alike are widely — if sometimes cautiously — predicting a blue wave in the midterm elections on November 3. But there’s an important caveat to predictions of a Democratic triumph: Republicans have far more cash at their disposal. President Donald Trump’s super PAC alone had around $400 million on hand earlier this […]

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