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Senate Democrats and supportive outside groups have built a massive cash advantage over Republicans 3½ months before the midterm elections, raising GOP concerns that they will squander a golden opportunity to grow their narrow majority. All told, Democratic candidates in 10 of the most critical races are sitting on $75 million, while their Republican rivals hold $33 million in cash on hand, according to a review of campaign finance documents filed in recent days. In Missouri, Sen.

MORE on Tuesday sought to quell criticism of his extraordinary remarks at a press conference a day earlier with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he accepts the U.S.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein A week bookended by pageantry and punctuated by disruption has put the power and pull of President Donald Trump on full display. Trump sought to upend alliances that have defined the last few decades, and found ready cheerleaders for the endeavor.

The TAKE with MaryAlice Parks For those Americans worried that Russians purposefully attempted to disrupt and influence U.S. public opinion in the run-up to the 2016 elections and that they might try to do so again, President Donald Trump offered few reassurances. It feels historic and perhaps unprecedented that U.S.

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A campaign spokesman said the reservation is an initial effort to make sure people vote yes on Question 3 on Election Day.  The $2.93 million that Warren aides said the Cambridge Democrat raked in between April and June was nearly 10 times the amount any of the three Republicans running in the Sept. 4 primary raised in the same time frame.  That question arose this past week when the upstart challenger Josh Zakim blasted William Galvin for refusing to debate him in any of the six public events he has proposed.

“I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian meddling in the 2016 election took place,” President Trump said Tuesday, but then immediately added: “Could be other people also.