Three weeks before the midterm elections, Republican heavy hitters are campaigning in parts of the country that, prior to this cycle, were reliably red.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled to Alaska to campaign for incumbent Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan, who is in a tight race against Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola. Over the past 45 years, Alaska has elected a Democratic senator only once. Peltola held a two-point lead over Sullivan in an Alaska Survey Research poll out last week.
Earlier in the day, Vice President JD Vance departed Washington for Texas to campaign for Republican Ken Paxton, the state's attorney general. Collectively, Vance and Trump have made four trips to Texas over the past two weeks. Texas voters haven't sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1988 (another was subsequently appointed by the governor). Democratic candidate James Talarico, a state representative, led Paxton by four points in a poll by Texas-based ReconMR released Tu...
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