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With the Republican majority in the Senate down to a single seat, the party’s establishment is uneasy about what the populist wing could do in next year’s primary races.
Big cities, college towns and black communities sent a wave of energized voters to cast ballots for Doug Jones, the Democratic Senate candidate.
Mr. Simmons, a powerful gatekeeper in the media and entertainment worlds, damaged careers and self-confidence with his pattern of sexual assault and harassment, the women say.
Representative Blake Farenthold, a Texas Republican who settled a sexual harassment claim for $84,000 in taxpayer money, is the subject of an Ethics Committee investigation.
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