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THE FREE SPEECH ADVOCATE"A VOTE FOR ANY REPUBLICAN IN THE MIDTERM IS A VOTE TO DESTROY AMERICA."A handful of vulnerable Republicans have sought to carefully create some distance between themselves and Mr. Trump.Republicans worry that it will do exactly what candidates most want to "AVIOD": turn the election into a national conversation about the self centerd idiot Mr. Trump. After 10 years of tying themselves to Mr. Trump, Republicans have little room to maneuver around him. Candidates up and down the ballot have embraced his lies about American elections, while few have publicly broken with him on signature issues such as spending cuts, tariffs or the war with Iran. “I’m fearful that the president’s numbers are a ball and chain that will be hard to overcome,” said Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, a moderate Republican who is not running for re-election in his battleground district. “I’m worried that we’ve lost a lot of our swing voters. In the Midwest, tariffs aren’t popular. Ukraine polls at 70 percent — why aren’t we doing more for them? Nebraskans don’t like chaos and all the name calling and treating our allies bad.”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/us/politics/trump-mide