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Trump is sober about the midterm prospects for Republicans, advisers say

In private, President Trump has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP's poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making

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Trump is sober about the midterm prospects for Republicans, advisers say

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