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President Trump spent some seven hours and 56 minutes addressing the (dwindling) Trump faithful in his campaign tour this week, a last-ditch effort to stave off what may be a loss of both the House and the Senate. His itinerary speaks to the abrupt reversal of fortunes for the Republicans this election year, with Trump stumping in what should be safely red territory: Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Ohio, Nebraska, and back to Texas. Still, Trump insists he’s winning. “We achieved more in two years than any other Presidency in the history of our country,” he said on Wednesday, in San Antonio, Texas, where a Democrat—running against Trump’s hand-picked candidate—now stands an even chance of winning a Senate seat in the state for the first time since 1988. “But there was a note of un-Trumpian insecurity to it all that made this performance unlike any of the many previous Trump campaign tours I’ve watched during the past decade,” Susan B. Glasser writes. Read her latest column:
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