
DNC to launch bus tour in eight states where races are tight
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In the final days before the midterm elections, the Democratic National Committee is launching a bus tour this week across at least eight states where many of the party's closest races are, in a drive to turn out as many of its base voters as possible.
DNC Chair Jamie Harrison's tour of get-out-the-vote events starts Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla. and travels up the I-95 corridor up to Pennsylvania, winding through battleground states including Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia as well as South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware, according to details first shared with CBS News.
"The DNC has made historic investments earlier than ever before in the midterm elections, and we're going to continue to do everything we can to energize, mobilize, and turn out voters," Harrison said in a statement.

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