Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, liberal or conservative, predisposed toward labor or business, your eyes should now be squarely pointed to the races below the presidential level. …
For some time, pollsters of all stripes have been seeing that Trump’s political problems were metastasizing and now infecting many GOP members of Congress in competitive states and districts, with some voters referring to Republicans on both sides of the Capitol dome as “enablers” of the commander in chief.
But in perhaps a even more worrying development for the GOP, various Republican consultants I have spoken with since the presidential debate are reporting some signs of a drop in enthusiasm and intensity in the GOP base, something that has absolutely not been a problem for the Republican Party at any point since the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation fight two years ago. CONT.
Charlie Cook
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