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FLORIDA Ron DeSantis, above left, has aligned himself closely with President Trump in a contentious race against Andrew Gillum.

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MISSOURI Polls have shown Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, in a statistical tie with her Republican challenger, Josh Hawley.

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A Ban Beyond Federal ControlThe Trump administration’s decision toquit the nuclear treaty with Tehran andimpose tough new sanctions has divid-ed Washington from its closest allies.News Analysis. PAGE A6

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E.U. Seeks to Keep Iran Pact

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. —President Trump on Mondayclosed out an us-against-themmidterm election campaign thatwas built on dark themes of fear,nationalism and racial animosityin an effort to salvage Republicancontrol of Congress for the re-maining two years of his term.

Mr. Trump’s fiery, invective-filled campaigning produced whatmay be the most polarizedmidterm contest in modern timesas he played to tribal rifts in Amer-ican society in a way that no presi-dent has done since before the civ-il rights era. The divisions ex-posed and expanded over the pastfew weeks seem certain to lastwell beyond Election Day.

On Tuesday, voters will choose anew House, decide one-third ofthe seats in the Senate and selectnew governors for battlegroundstates that will be critical to the2020 presidential campaign. Onthe line for the president will behis ability to legislate, build hispromised border wall, appointnew judges and ultimately set thestage to run for a second term.

More than most midterms, thiselection became a referendum onMr. Trump, as he himself has toldhis audiences it would be. Thepresident’s energetic rallies ap-pear to have bolstered Republi-cans who were trying to matchDemocratic fervor, rooted in an-

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Major television networks andFacebook have taken the unusualstep of rejecting an inflammatoryad by President Trump’s politicalteam that effectively closes afiercely fought midterm campaignwith a message portraying immi-grants as a violent threat.

The 30-second political spot,which mirrors the president’sapocalyptic warnings about a car-avan of asylum seekers in Mexico,was widely denounced as racistand misleading after Mr. Trumpshared a longer version of it lastweek.

NBC and Facebook, which bothran the ad over the weekend, re-versed course after a backlash onMonday and announced that thecommercial would be removed,saying it fell short of their in-house advertising standards.CNN had refused to air the adfrom the start, calling it “racist.”

Even Fox News, which hasmade warnings about the migrantcaravan a staple of its prime timecoverage of the midterms, feltcompelled to distance itself fromthe ad. The network’s president ofad sales, Marianne Gambelli, saidin a statement that the networkhad stopped airing it on Sunday.“It will not appear on either FoxNews Channel or Fox BusinessNetwork,” she wrote.

Mr. Trump said he was unawareof the controversy. “You’re telling

Media Giants RecoilFrom Caravan Ad

Called Racist

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MIAMI — The senior senatorcame out first, all drawl and poli-tical muscle memory — the manwith the golden-est hair in theroom and an entrance song, “Eyeof the Tiger,” from 1982.

“Wow,” Senator Bill Nelsonmanaged, greeting a few thou-sand Democrats packed between

the barricades of an indoor eventspace on Friday to see BarackObama — and the young man,running for governor of Florida,whom everyone keeps comparingto Barack Obama.

Mr. Nelson, 76, spoke a littleSpanish, interrupting himself totranslate every few words. He ap-proximated a new-to-Twitter un-cle at Thanksgiving, disparagingthe environmental record of hisRepublican opponent, Gov. Rick

Scott — or “hashtag Red TideRick.” The people cheered duti-fully.

And then Mr. Nelson introducedthe party’s main attraction on theballot this year: the midsize-cityleader nearly half his age.

“What’s going on, everybody?”

asked Andrew Gillum, 39, the Tal-lahassee mayor who wants to runthe state, grabbing his turn at themicrophone like a baton. “Are y’allready to flip Florida blue?”

The people roared.For two years, national Demo-

crats have been puzzling over howbest to counter President Trump,plotting their comeback in areasred, blue and in between. And in

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EBERSBACH-NEUGERSDORF,Germany — Frank Dehmel was onthe streets of East Germany in1989. Every Monday, he marchedagainst the Communist regime,demanding freedom and democ-racy and chanting with thecrowds: “We are the people!”

Three decades later, Mr.Dehmel is on the streets again,older and angrier, and chantingthe same slogan — this time forthe far right.

He won freedom and democra-cy when the Berlin Wall camedown 29 years ago on Nov. 9. Buthe lost everything else: His job,his status, his country — and hiswife. Like so many eastern wom-

en, she went west to look for workand never came back.

To understand why the far rightis on the march again in Germany,it helps to understand the manygrievances of its most loyal sup-porters: men in the former Com-munist East.

The emergence of Eastern Manas a disruptive political forcestands as a prime legacy of Chan-cellor Angela Merkel’s 13 years inpower. As she prepared Germanslast week for her eventual politicalexit, some noted that, politically atleast, her Germany was more di-vided between East and Westthan at any point since reunifica-

Angry East German Men FuelFar Right in Nation Still at Odds

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ARTHUR, N.D. — This is har-vest season in the rich farmlandsof the eastern Dakotas, the time ofyear Kevin Karel checks his com-puter first thing in the morning tosee how many of his soybeans Chi-nese companies have purchasedwhile he was sleeping.

Farmers here in Cass Countyhave prospered over the last twodecades by growing more soy-beans than any other county in theUnited States, and by shippingmost of those beans across the Pa-cific Ocean to feed Chinese pigsand chickens.

But this year, the Chinese haveall but stopped buying. The larg-est market for one of America’s

largest exports has shut its doors.The Chinese government im-posed a tariff on American soy-beans in response to the Trumpadministration’s tariffs on Chi-nese goods. The latest federal

Tariffs Squeeze a Big Customer,But the Soybeans Keep Coming

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SOUTHWEST Off-the-charts early voting numbers give Democratshope they can flip two or three Senate seats. PAGE A11

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THE SURROGATE Donald Trump Jr. isappealing once more to the Republicanbase, and the crowds are pleased. PAGE A16

VISUAL AIDS Television anchors talk aboutwhat may be their shows’ stars: interac-tive maps, loaded with data. PAGE A19

A reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s “LaBayadère” in Berlin is fluent but un-even, Alastair Macaulay writes. PAGE C1

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The scientist David Hu, who studiesoddball topics like how snakes slither,has drawn the ire of skeptical senators,and praise from the Army. PAGE D1

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A Turkish official said a chemist andtoxicologist were part of a team sent toIstanbul to remove evidence under theguise of helping with the JamalKhashoggi investigation. PAGE A9

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ON THE EDGE If Democrats flip one New York Senate seat, theywill end decades of Republican dominance. PAGE A25

In a rare step, the United States OlympicCommittee moved to seize control of theorganization over its handling of a sexu-al abuse scandal. PAGE B7

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U.S.A. Gymnastics in Peril

SEATTLE — After conductinga yearlong search for a secondhome, Amazon has switchedgears and is now finalizing plansto have a total of 50,000 employ-ees in two locations, according topeople familiar with the decision-making process.

The company is nearing a dealto move to the Long Island Cityneighborhood of Queens, accord-ing to two of the people briefed onthe discussions. Amazon is alsoclose to a deal to move to the Crys-tal City area of Arlington, Va., aWashington suburb, one of thepeople said. Amazon already hasmore employees in those two ar-eas than anywhere else outside of

Seattle, its home base, and theBay Area.

Amazon executives met twoweeks ago with Gov. Andrew M.Cuomo in the governor’s Manhat-tan office, said one of the peoplebriefed on the process, addingthat the state had offered poten-tially hundreds of millions of dol-lars in subsidies. Executives metseparately with Mayor Bill de Bla-sio, a person briefed on that dis-cussion said. Long Island City is ashort subway ride across the EastRiver from Midtown Manhattan.

“I am doing everything I can,”Governor Cuomo told reporterswhen asked Monday about the

Amazon’s Pick for Second HomeIs Said to Be Two Second Homes

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A Wisconsin town is on edge after aquiet couple were found shot to deathand their 13-year-old daughter disap-peared. PAGE A22

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