BATON ROUGE, La. — Rep. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana liver doctor who could determine control of the Senate, has crafted a two-step prescription for helping the GOP retake the upper chamber.

First, Cassidy said at a series of events here, Republicans cannot simply treat the midterms as a referendum on Obamacare — even as his opponent, Sen. Mary Landrieu, and other Democrats scramble to distance themselves from the rocky rollout of the president’s signature legislative initiative.

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