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    Left, Right & Center

    We're in the midterms home stretch

    Are we there yet? It's been a rough week.

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    By Josh Barro • Nov 2, 2018 • 51m Listen

    After last week's arrest of a man suspected of sending explosives to Democrats and critics of President Trump, a gunman shot and killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The shooter disliked President Trump for failing to support anti-Semitism, but has the president emboldened anti-Semites through his rhetoric and his political alliances? Yair Rosenberg joins the panel to talk about the time he spent with the Jewish community in Pittsburgh this week, and why the president's rhetoric about Jews is...complicated.

    Will Carless, a correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro who covers extremism for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, discusses Jair Bolsonaro's rise, the coalition he built in Brazil, and why comparisons to President Trump are flawed.

    Charlotte Alter of Time Magazine shares dispatches from the Midwest, where she's following Democratic candidates in tight races, and the Left, Right & Center panel talks predictions, indicators and what might surprise them in Tuesday's results.

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      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

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      National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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      Yair Rosenberg

      Senior writer at Tablet Magazine

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      Will Carless

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      Charlotte Alter

      national correspondent for TIME

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