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DO IT AGAIN The re-election races of freshmen like (clockwise from left): Conor Lamb, Elissa Slotkin, Haley Stevens, Donna Shalala, and Chrissy Houlahan. could be key to winning the White House.
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IN 2018 DEMOCRATS FLIPPED 41 REPUBLICAN House seats, 23 of them in districts that Donald Trump won in 2016. This year Democrats are hoping those midterm wins stick for a second round—and turn out to have been harbingers of growing dissatisfaction with Trump among conservatives and independents, dissatisfaction that could now be decisive in the race for the White House. The logic: if some GOP voters will vote for moderate Democrats in the House, they should also, after nearly four years of Trump, be willing to cast their ballots for a moderate in the White House.