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GOP threat in 2018: suburban voters

SUMMERLIN, Nev. - White college graduates in America's suburbs have turned hard against Republicans in elections around the country and threaten to upend the party's control of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections.

Put off by Donald Trump's presidency, they have been shunning Republicans in congressional and state legislative contests. Their support was crucial in electing Democrats as governor in Virginia and U.S. senator in conservative Alabama.

Republican hopes for keeping control of the U.S. Senate next year will hinge on affluent, mainly white suburbs such as Summerlin, Nev., where Trump's unpopularity is weighing on GOP Sen. Dean Heller in his run for

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