Gaming the system

War chest?

Local democracy bites the dust

Team player?

Two minds?

We just got our head handed to us

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Spitball some ideas?

Dog whistle politics

Stopped in her tracks?

In the nosebleeds

Read the tea leaf?

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Soul searching

Toast of the town?

On a wing and a prayer

Old saw?

Donald Trump is “a…birther and bully”

Herculean proportions?

Rule of thumb?

Zero-hour contract

Both sides of the aisle?

Sisyphean task

Right side of history?

Con artist?

In the cross hairs?

Theater of the absurd?

High wire act

Hit the hay?

In the doghouse?