'Troubled' candidates burden GOP already saddled with Trump's baggage

The Rachel Maddow Show by MS NOW

Aug 4, 202600:44:22News & Politics

With midterm elections fast approaching, the Republican Party, already compromised by Donald Trump's cratering popularity and track record of criminality and immorality, is dealing with multiple candidates mired in damag...

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