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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday Republicans face an equally difficult fight to retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in November’s midterm elections, despite forecasts suggesting a considerably tougher contest in the House. Yet the party is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into defending congressional and state-level seats once considered safely red. In some states, notably North Carolina and Georgia, they appear to be scaling back their ambitions – shifting resources to other Republican strongholds where Democrats are mounting unexpected challenges, as FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains.
