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Will Boris Johnson's Early Election Gamble Pay Off?

Jamie Dettmer

   With a day to go before Britons head to the polls to vote in their
   third general election in under four years, the question the ruling
   Conservatives are asking themselves is, will Prime Minister Boris
   Johnson's gamble to hold an early ballot pay off?

   Will he be able to accomplish what his Downing Street predecessor,
   Theresa May, failed to do in 2017 with her snap election and secure a
   large parliamentary majority?

   Johnson hopes to achieve what she failed to do -- to persuade
   traditional working-class voters who favor Brexit in the north of
   England to ditch their lifetime habit of voting Labor. If successful,
   it would amount to a seismic reshaping of British politics.

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