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New York Times: ‘Swing State’ Voters Who Went Dem In 2018 Are Swinging Back. To Trump.

Emily Zanotti
New York Times: ‘Swing State’ Voters Who Went Dem In 2018 Are Swinging Back. To Trump.
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The New York Times/Siena College partnership keeps producing terrible news for the 2020 Democratic contenders. This time, on the heels of a poll that showed only former Vice President Joe Biden giving President Donald Trump a challenge in battleground states, the NYT’s Upshot discovered that swing state voters who “swung” to Democrats in 2018 plan to swing back to Trump.

“Nearly two-thirds of voters in six battleground states who voted for President Trump in 2016 — but for Democratic congressional candidates in 2018 — say they intend to back the president against each of his top rivals, according to recent polling,” the NYT said Wednesday.

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