NYT: “Pennsylvania runs the whole gamut of the midterms in four races,” said Jesse Ferguson, a national Democratic strategist involved in House elections. “If Democrats can win every kind of fight there, there is no district safe for Republicans in this moment.” One race features the House’s most outspoken moderate Republican; another includes the former leader of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus. Stock trading and corruption is a recurring theme in advertising. Accusations of socialism are flying.
Yet for all the differences between these districts, there is a commonality to the G.O.P.’s troubles.
His name is Donald J. Trump.’

And: ‘Dwayne McDavitt, a founder of Bikers for Trump Pennsylvania (…) said with disdain that the Democrats had only one message this year. “What they’re running on,” he said, “is hating Trump.”’

No alternative for hate. Hate is stronger than a vision of better health care or higher minimum wages.

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