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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Monday, November 5th. In today's news, Democrats in tough Senate races avoid mentioning their party affiliation.

The House map continues to expand into red districts thanks to a green wave,

and Florida is one of several governor's races tightening in the

closing days before the midterms. But first, the big idea.

The fierce battle for control of Congress and the nation's governorships

has turned toward blatant and overtly racial attacks rarely seen in America

since the civil rights era of the 1960s. A new robocall going out to voters in Georgia

features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey

and calling Stacy Abrams, who is running to become the nation's first black woman

elected governor, quote, a poor man's Aunt Jemima.

In Florida, the Trump administration's Secretary of Agriculture, Sunny Purdue, urged voters not

to elect Andrew Gillum, who would be that state's first black governor,

with a colloquialism widely seen as having racial connotations.

This election, he said, is quote,

so cotton-pickin important.

And some Republicans suddenly scrambled following the Pittsburgh

synagogue shooting to distance themselves from Representative Steve King,

the Republican from Iowa. The moves come after King said that a far right party in Austria with

historic ties to the Nazis would be Republican were it in the United States.

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