Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.

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Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.

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Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.

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Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, called his Republican opponent, Representative Mike Collins, a bigot. Mr. Collins called the incumbent a radical “trust-fund kid.”