The revolt in Trump country that could change America forever

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Welcome to Trump’s America, The i Paper ’s World Insight series presenting the sharpest, deepest thinking on an era-defining shift in history and politics, investigating how…

On the day early voting started in Texas, the long-serving Republican governor Greg Abbott and both main party candidates fighting for the Senate all rallied their supporters in the sprawling city of Fort Worth.

The reason was simple: Tarrant County – home to more than two million people with its cattle stockyards, aircraft factories and fast-growing suburbs – was pivotal to the midterm elections in a giant state seen for so long as a conservative stronghold.

The local Republican chair called it “the largest red county in America” and boasted they intended to make it “inhospitable for Democrats” as his party tried tricks such as gerrymandering voting districts and restricting ballot stations in enemy terrain.

Yet on Tuesday, Tarrant County turned blue with voters rejecting Republicans from top to bottom of the ballot paper as Texas kicked out Abbott, sent the Democrat James Talarico to the…

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