Eight congressional races could decide if Biden beats Trump

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In the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats turned a lot of red Congressional seats blue. This year, the voters in eight of those districts could decide the outcome of the presidential election.

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Rep. Elissa Slotkin speaks during news conference discussing the"Shutdown to End All Shutdowns Act" on January 29, 2019 in Washington, DWhile maintaining liberal bona fides on issues like abortion rights, LGBTQ equality and Trump's attempts to kill Obamacare without a replacement, Slotkin ran as a centrist eager to reach across the aisle. She avoided the subject of Trump himself as much as possible and beat Republican Mike Bishop by 3.8 percentage points or about 19,000 votes.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urges the Senate to pass the Heroes Act during a news conference in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol July 15, 2020 in Washington, DC.The GOP challengers also like to point out that when they were candidates in 2018, all eight Democrats said they were not interested in impeaching Trump and were open to supporting someone other than Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. Once elected, they all voted for Pelosi and for impeaching the president.

Indeed, for all the hype around The Squad and the defeats this summer of moderate incumbents by Squad-style upstarts, the reality is Democrats won the House in 2018 by running centrists.s Wasserman says,"The overwhelming number of Democrats who came in were more moderate, business-oriented members."Jose A. Iglesias/el Nuevo Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty

 

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