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GOP faces election reckoning with Trump's virus strategy

by Associated Press
| October 2, 2020 4:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s diagnosis with COVID-19 Friday was a moment of reckoning for his Republican Party, whose leaders largely adopted his strategy of downplaying the disease but are now confronted with a stark political nightmare weeks from Election Day.

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