The New York Times reported; personal attacks and false claims; The attitude of the Republicans in the last days of the competition The New York Times reported that the candidates of the Republican Party increased their personal attacks and false claims against their opponents in the last days of the election campaign; The approach is taken in conditions of growing dissatisfaction with high prices and the declining popularity of Donald Trump. Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator from Arizona and a critic of Trump, described the process as "terrible" and said that Republican political literature has reached a new level of recklessness and insult. Flake attributed the proliferation of this literature to a combination of frustration with the party and imitation of Trump.