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Trump’s Republicans scramble to stop Democratic midterms wave

WASHINGTON: Republicans made a final push Sunday to prevent a predicted thumping in US midterm elections, where Democrats are gunning to win Congress and impose the first political check on President Donald Trump’s unprecedented pursuit of power. Polls show Democrats are all but certain to take the majority from Republicans in the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s vote and have a shot at winning the Senate. But after a decade of Trump defying political gravity and two years of a second presi