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Banning diesel exports won’t save the GOP in the Midwest

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Farm-state Republicans have coalesced around a new winning message for November: a federal ban on American companies exporting diesel around the world. Resurrecting the 1970s’ failed energy policies would be a disaster and replicate a COVID-19-level shock to global supply chains.

It’s no secret that Republican strategists are getting increasingly worried about polls from middle America. Ohio is upside down, Iowa is a toss-up, and Kansas has entered the peripheral.

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