House Republicans have had a rough summer.
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Lines stretched for blocks as people waited to hear Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak in Everett as protesters also gathered.
Democrats have been buoyed by polls suggesting that some races could be closer than expected, with Republicans like Sen. Trump is widely loathed in Mexico for calling migrants from the country “rapists” among other insults. A candidate who lacks conventional qualifications for the job, habitually violates party orthodoxy on policy, and often acts like a buffoon and a bigot nevertheless retains the support of most but not all Republican voters. The same poll, done by the Tarrance Group and the NRCC, has Clinton ahead of Trump in this district by 3 points.
Gleason says he doesn’t think those Republican voters will consider a split ticket. The assumption that black voters should flock to the Republicans because one Senator has made vague gestures in their direction is presumptuous.
Iowa GOP Rep. Rob Blum is one of his party’s most endangered incumbents.
Despite Democrats efforts to link Blum to Trump with digital advertising earlier this summer, Blum now leads Monica Vernon in polling done earlier this month by 7 points according to his campaign’s internal polling.
Obviously, Trump does not have that kind of record deriving from past, high-level policy activity, though in a period of uncertainty in domestic policy-making even as President Obama has tried to maintain a consistency of recent Democratic activity, there remains some degree of doubt as to the capacity of the American economy to automatically continue on its present path. In an open seat in Wisconsin’s eighth district, where GOP Rep. Reid Ribble is retiring, GOP candidate Mike Gallagher holds a 52%-36% lead over the Democratic candidate, Tom Nelson, according to internal polling by Gallagher’s campaign by Public Opinion strategies and the NRCC.
– Pivot. This is when a candidate realizes his most important points are disgusting to a majority of voters and decides to do a verbal slight-of-hand in an attempt to sound reasonable and intelligent.
Who can deny there are many unmet needs and problems in urban areas, but that’s not primarily the result of black or Democratic will, ideas or leadership, but of Republican policies! In Jones’ case, he pledged earlier this year he would back Trump, but eased off that in a radio interview in August after the fallout this summer from Trump’s attacks on a Gold Star family.
Josh Holmes, former campaign manager for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and president of the consulting firm Cavalry LLC, said the Trump factor is unique.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is returning to Washington state.
While 47 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say that they’d most likely have chosen Clinton in a do-over, 42 percent name Sanders, 3 percent say they would choose former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. The donut’s substance and sugar – the money for these cities – is controlled by congressional Republicans, governors and state legislatures dominated by rural and suburban constituencies. By contrast, the ordinary voters among Democrats were told they would get the candidate the party establishment chose – no matter how flawed, how big a failure or how lacking in integrity that candidate was already known to be: Hillary Clinton.
Instead of recognizing the dramatic political and demographic changes that have swept the nation, the authors seem mired in the world of 1965, when Republicans had to rebuild the party after the debacle of Barry Goldwater’s landslide loss. The state GOP officials exclaimed that they were tapping in to “deeper support” than what is shown in the polls in Pennsylvania. “We all know what Donald Trump has said about women”.
We have seen how despicable and un-American the behavior of the Democratic leadership has been. He stressed that 10 of these districts – in places like Minnesota, Michigan and wealthy northern New Jersey suburbs – are places Democrats have some traction because of Trump’s negative approval ratings.
Without predicting the House could turn blue, Lujan said, “House Democrats have great reason for optimism this fall”.
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Democrats have already signaled they meant to unload on Trump in North Carolina, where Barack Obama won in 2008, but then lost in 2012. Lindsey Graham, a Trump GOP primary opponent who told CNN months ago he will not vote for either Trump or Clinton. This is not the most strategically challenging campaign, as long as he is behaving as he is. We won’t know for sure until Election Day, but Republicans are clearly more reluctant than Democrats this year to say how they are going to vote.
