Blue tsunami, wave or trickle? Races to watch as Democrats seek to flip the House

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Democrats are hoping for a wave in House races shaped by redrawn maps in California, Colorado and Ohio, while Trump urges supporters to treat the midterms as a referendum on himself even though his name isn't on any ballot.

Races profiled include California's Valadao facing a Sanders-backed challenger in a district Democrats redrew to be competitive, New Jersey's Kean dogged by an unexplained months-long absence during which he kept trading stocks, and a rematch in Ohio's newly redrawn 9th District between Kaptur and Merrin.

Colorado Republicans face a wrinkle in their own gubernatorial nominee, a ministry leader who claims to have exorcised a demon and invented his own martial art, which one analyst suggested could depress turnout statewide.

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When a political scientist's best read on a governor's race boils down to how many voters get spooked by a man's demon-casting resume, the campaign season has officially gone sideways. Every cycle somebody redraws a map and calls it fairness, and every cycle the voters in that map get treated like pieces on somebody else's board. The candidates change, the trick stays the same.

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