Where Voters Are Abandoning Trump, and Barriers to New Cancer Treatments

Plus, the Friday news quiz. 

Here’s what we’re covering:

• Trump Puts on a Midterms Show for an Audience That’s Already Sold, by Katie Rogers
• Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump, by Jennifer Medina and Edgar Sandoval
• Christa Pike Is in Critical Condition as Tennessee Pauses Executions, by Emily Cochrane
• Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case, by Santul Nerkar, Benjamin Oreskes and Hurubie Meko
• U.K.-Iranian Man Arrested in London in Connection to Air Base Incident, by Michael D. Shear
• New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?, by Gina Kolata
• Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology, by Brooks Barnes

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