‘World on Fire’: GOP Leans In to Overseas Chaos Argument in Sprint to November

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Then–Vice President Kamala Harris and then–President Joe Biden in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 4, 2022.

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Republicans have long been convinced that voters’ enduring concerns about inflation and illegal immigration give them an electoral edge this cycle over Democrats, who currently control the White House and the Senate.

But in the final stretch of the race, the continuing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as national-security threats from American adversaries under the Biden-Harris administration give Republicans another electoral cudgel — a world on fire.

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

Audrey Fahlberg

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Audrey Fahlberg

Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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