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Republicans fear Donald Trump's strategy of outsourcing door knocking won't get them enough votes.

Plus, McKinsey cuts hundreds of jobs in China as it pulls back on government-linked work,

and she Xinpeng reaches for the strong economic medicine he was reluctant

to prescribe, but is it what the patient needs?

According to a lot of economists and analysts, what China needs to do is not to keep building stuff, keep producing stuff.

What they need to do is to try something bigger to bolster demand.

It's Thursday October 17th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News.

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

We begin with the race for president as swing state Republicans are rushing to

bolster Donald Trump's ground game amid concerns among donors, political

operatives, and lawmakers that his campaign's outsourcing strategy could come up short.

To date, the Trump campaign has gambled that it can use outside groups like turning point action

to pay people to knock on voter doors instead of doing as much in-house,

leading a GOP operative in Michigan to warn that the campaign is knocking on one-tenth

of the doors that they did in 2016. An RNC official pushed back saying

their efforts have yielded five times as many Michiganders committed to vote for

...