Declared dead by President Trump on Wednesday, centrist Democrats responded: We’re still alive.

Battling for control of the upper chamber, Trump’s dedicated significant time to rallies in red states attacking incumbent Senate Democrats up for re-election. The Democratic Party is being dragged leftward by “radical socialists,” Trump argued in a an op-ed Wednesday. “The truth,” Trump proclaimed, “is that the centrist Democratic Party is dead.”

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