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GOP faces reckoning over Trump's virus strategy, diagnosis

by Associated Press
| October 4, 2020 12:03 AM

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

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