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Democrats are running on affordability. Are voters buying it?

Republicans started the year believing tax cuts would benefit them in the midterms. Instead other affordability issues are driving voters to Democrats.

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Stephan Bisaha
Sacha Pfeiffer
Correspondent, Investigations
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