The number of swing House seats nationally—already at a low ebb—could shrink to as low as the teens, insulating most members of Congress from routine electoral accountability.
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Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2026
Former Justice Department officials called the visit unusual, given the historical norm of insulating federal criminal investigations from political officials.
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