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Democrats put economy and affordability at center of final campaign push

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Campaigns spend big to sway voters with increasingly personal attack ads

27 October 2026 at 01:30
Campaigns and their allies are making their closing arguments, and they've spent more than the annual budgets of a handful of states doing it. Much of that money is aimed at voters' wallets, but the attacks are also getting more personal and more artificial. Lisa Desjardins explains.

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