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A More Perfect Union video: Arkansas is one of the Senate races Republicans are quietly panicking about. Senator Tom Cotton is a big fan of the Iran War, ICE, and Trump. But now Republicans are scrambling, spending 65x more than Dems on ads, and worried that the economy could cost them this seat.

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