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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Politics
Alex Daugherty

'Trumpism isn't the future.' Ousted Miami Republican reflects on election loss

WASHINGTON _ Carlos Curbelo couldn't win a two-front war.

National Democrats spent more money in Curbelo's district than any other across the country on a health care-centric TV campaign. Donald Trump spent the final stretches of the campaign attacking immigrants, which didn't help Curbelo in his majority-Hispanic district months after he led an unsuccessful GOP rebellion to force Congress to act on the issue.

And Curbelo's Democratic opponent, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, avoided strategic and ethical blunders that plagued former Rep. Joe Garcia, the Democrat Curbelo beat in 2014 and 2016.

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