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David Smith in Washington

‘A new political hellscape’: sweeping gains for Republicans could stifle Biden’s presidency

Biden in Carlsbad, California on Friday. Biden’s final swing implies a defensive posture in states that Democrats already hold along with battleground Pennsylvania.
Joe Biden in Carlsbad, California, on Friday. Biden’s final swing implies a defensive posture in states that Democrats already hold along with battleground Pennsylvania. Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

Joe Biden is fighting a rearguard action to stave off defeat in Tuesday’s midterm elections as Republicans look poised to make sweeping gains in the US Congress, setting up two years of political trench warfare.

The president, along with former president Barack Obama, has been crisscrossing America in a last-ditch bid to persuade voters that a Democratic victory is critical not only to Biden’s legislative agenda but the preservation of American democracy.

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