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4 takeaways from the GOP midterm convention

Trump got his big show. Vance took the baton. ‘Common sense’ was the term. No bad vibes allowed.

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Republicans held their first-ever midterm convention because President Donald Trump wanted to. The two-day rally/telethon put his personality and policies at the center of the party’s campaign pitch, coalescing around a line of attack on Democrats as extreme.

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