A pattern of dupery has emerged across the nation, as a number of Democratic candidates for office in generally Republican states have tried to obscure their more sharply leftist positions from moderate voters, according to their own staffers and close supporters caught on hidden camera.
In Texas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Tennessee, Arizona, and Florida, candidate after candidate have been revealed to leave some hot-button policy position locked in a campaign closet, while wooing voters across states carried in 2016 by then-candidate Donald Trump.