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Scoop: Trump enlists football stars for final midterm push in Texas

Republicans are pouring millions into football-game ads, and Tuesday's Texas stops, in Corpus Christi and Lubbock, are aimed at young men who may skip the midterms; the polls disagree.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPresident Trump campaigns in Texas on Tuesday with three former football stars, Johnny Manziel, Colt McCoy and Danny Amendola, as Republicans try to turn out young men in the final week before the midterms, Axios reports.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's a targeted ad, except the ad has a rally at the Port of Corpus Christi at two p. m.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDoors open at ten-thirty. That is three and a half hours of waiting to hear from men who are forty, forty and thirty-three.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWhy would that work?

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTrump won men under thirty by fourteen points in twenty twenty-four.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA Harvard Youth Poll last week has Democrats up twenty-six among young men who say they will definitely vote. That is a bigger swing than any trade.

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