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The Republican party will regroup after their shellacking in the US midterm elections, but it won’t look the same Walking by a tattoo studio and medical spa on the pretty main street of Round Rock, in Texas Hill Country, Tarik Bakir recalled voting for Barack Obama in 2008 and Donald Trump in 2024.

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“I’m not happy with the Iran war,” said Bakir, 41, a financial adviser who served with the US military in Afghanistan.

But when it came to the 2026 midterm elections, he was firmly back in the Democrats’ column.

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