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WASHINGTON — It was the night the lights went out in Georgia for Team Trump.
Former President Donald Trump's favorites were dismissed up and down the ballot Tuesday, as Republican voters handed him a book-end rebuke to his 2020 re-election bid loss in the state.
But Georgia was just one of four states that held contests Tuesday, and voters in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas also provided fresh clues about the shifting sentiments of the American electorate in this midterm election year.