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With Wash. statehouse at stake, Democrats seek to build West Coast wall of Trump resistance

REDMOND, Wash. - One year ago, Manka Dhingra was preparing for a celebration, a gathering of family and friends to mark Hillary Clinton's election as the nation's first woman president.

Today, she is bearing the hopes and dreams of Democrats crushed by Clinton's loss and trying to help the party pull itself from a deep hole.

A state Senate race pitting two campaign novices in the upscale suburbs east of Seattle has turned into a major battle between the two national parties, becoming the costliest legislative contest in state history and serving as a test of the Donald Trump effect far from the other Washington.

At stake is control of the state Capitol in Olympia.

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