GOP candidates give up on Trump and run against Clinton
Congressional Republicans dig up their 1996 strategy and run as a check on a Clinton White House.
By Alex Isenstadt
10/25/16 05:21 AM EDT
Republicans, desperate to salvage their congressional majorities amid Donald Trump’s collapse, are increasingly presenting themselves as checks on a Hillary Clinton presidency – a final argument that, if only implicitly, concedes the White House to Democrats.
The offensive, which has been under discussion for months and is only now being unleashed, is designed to win over voters who want to see Clinton’s powers curtailed – even as she closes in on a potentially sweeping national victory.
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