It was Trump and unpopular MAGA candidates. It was poor candidate quality. It was mail-in ballots. It was election fraud. Low turnout. Redistricting. That blizzard of opinions you are hearing about the still-unresolved US mid-term elections, widely expected to deliver a red wave of congressional control, masks genuine puzzlement about what happened and why.
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