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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Republicans have ‘nothing to run on’ in midterms after Trump failures, Jeffries says

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Hakeem Jeffries, the US House minority leader, speaks to reporters at the US Capitol in Washington DC on 23 July. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Donald Trump’s Republican party has “nothing to run on” for the congressional midterm elections after the president broke promises to lower costs and avoid starting war overseas, the US House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, has said.

The New York congressman made those comments on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, exactly 100 days from the 3 November midterms, when Jeffries and his fellow Democrats are aiming to take control of the US House and Senate from their Republican opponents.

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