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‘This is an army of socialists’: To retake House, GOP is hammering one message

The timing of the Monitor Breakfast with Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn. – chairman of the House Republican campaign committee – Thursday could not have been better. 

The night before, at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, President Donald Trump had reprised his attacks on four freshman Democratic congresswomen of color, known as “the squad.” When he got to Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who was

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