The connection that may decide 2018 isn’t what you think

In Washington, the burning debate is whether any of the legal challenges swirling around President Donald Trump will directly connect him to a criminal act.

But the Democratic hopes of retaking the House, the Senate or both could pivot on whether the party can complete a very different connection: linking voters’ perceptions of the Republican tax bill with the GOP’s persistent efforts, in that bill and elsewhere, to roll back the federal role in guaranteeing access to health care. CONT.

Ronald Brownstein, CNN