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The message from Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, was urgent and unsparing. In a meeting with Republican lawmakers before they left Washington for the August congressional recess, Mr. McCarthy warned that time was running short: Unless they intensified their campaign efforts and forcefully delivered a coherent message, he said, Republicans would suffer grievous losses in November.
Instead of arresting their political decline, House Republicans proved unable at every turn to stay ahead of their troubles — including many of their own making.
By Labor Day, Republicans were fatally unprepared for an onslaught of Democratic campaign spending that overwhelmed
