Original sentence: A number of Republican candidates claimed to support provisions of the Affordable Care Act, such as protections for preexisting conditions, even though they voted for or supported efforts that either weakened or eliminated those provisions.According to The Washington Post, President Trump "settled on a strategy of fearlaced with falsehoods and racially tinged rhetoricto help lift his party to victory in the coming midterms, part of a broader effort to energize Republican voters".In October 2018, The New York Times and The Washington Post characterized Republicans' 2018 campaign messaging as being chiefly focused on fear-mongering about immigration and race.The New York Times wrote that "Mr.Toronto Star wrote that as the mid-term elections approached, Trump resorted to "a blizzard of fear-mongering and lies, many of them about darker-skinned foreigners".Trump and other Republicans are insistently seeking to tie Democrats to unfettered immigration and violent crime, and in some instances this summer and fall they have attacked minority candidates in nakedly racial terms".Vulnerable Republican candidates who voted in favor of the American Health Care Act of 2017—which repealed portions of the Affordable Care Act—sought to defend their votes with what CNN described as "falsehoods and obfuscations"
Edited sentence: Several Republican campaign advertisements expressed support for provisions of the Affordable Care Act that Republicans had recently voted to repeal, while others were described by various media outlets as having engaged in "fear-mongering" on immigration and crime