‘Trump Is Dragging the Party Down’: GOP Scrambles to Stop Steep Midterm Losses

‘Trump is dragging the party down’: GOP scrambles to stop steep midterm losses

By Adam Cancryn, Lauren Fox, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — The Republican Party’s midterm campaign has turned into a triage operation just three weeks out from November, as officials race to avert losses in a string of once-safe seats that they increasingly fear could cost them total control of Congress. The worsening landscape has alarmed

Trump's 'fundamental' flaw is breaking the GOP's midterm wall: 'Can't fully contain it'

The GOP had what appeared to be a sizable wall built up to blunt any gains made by the Democrats in the upcoming midterm election, but President Donald Trump's astonishing decline has thrown all of that work into jeopardy, according to one political expert. The GOP is approaching the midterm elections with a sizable cash advantage over the Democrats, something that veteran political analyst Ron Brownstein, a Bloomberg opinion columnist, argued o…