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Republicans Plot How To Invade ‘Blue States’ Where Sanders Tanks Downticket Dems

Emily Zanotti
Republicans Plot How To Invade ‘Blue States’ Where Sanders Tanks Downticket Dems
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House Democrats are desperately testing strategies that could lead them to victory despite a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)-topped presidential ticket, but Republicans, it seems, are testing a few strategies of their own, so that they can be better prepared to “invade” so-called “Blue States” where Sanders tanks downticket Democrats.

Politico reports that Republicans are “launching a multi-million-dollar field effort in four blue states” in the hopes of harnessing Democratic angst, even in solidly liberal states like California and New York “with the hopes of flipping the House back to the GOP” in 2020.

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