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Trump, Obama pound campaign trail in closing week of US midterm election

WASHINGTON: Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack ​Obama head to Ohio and Georgia on Wednesday, the sites of critical contests in the November 3 midterm election that will determine which party controls the US Congress for the next two years. The final week of the campaign is playing out with Trump’s public approval rating near a record low, with Americans increasingly sour on the high cost of living and the Iran war, threatening Republicans’ majorities in the