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Trump’s eleventh-hour midterm threat a setup for a bigger lie: legal expert

The Trump administration’s “ unprecedented ” escalation in its campaign to exert more control over the midterms is part of a grander scheme to create a contingency plan should Republicans suffer a “devastating” election loss, legal expert Joyce Vance theorized Saturday. “That’s what we need to be on guard for here,” Vance wrote in an analysis published…

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