Some Republicans blame Trump for the unpopular Iran war. They also fault him for brushing off fuel prices and for acting late. Paul Shoemaker, a GOP strategist in North Carolina, says Republicans have a turnout problem. He says the cause is the administration's failure to deal with voters' economic worries.
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Republicans are sending Trump to Ohio for a campaign stop.
Only the AP wire supports this, carried by PBS NewsHour, ABC and WABE, so it is effectively one source. Other sources show heavy GOP spending in Ohio (AP/Colvin over $152M, Axios $169M Republican) but do not confirm the Trump visit.
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Republicans are pulling back from Georgia and North Carolina, and those races are slipping.
Politico, via Political Wire and Political.org, reports Tim Scott's priority list omits both states. CNN reports Old North Action trimmed its NC reservations by about a third, and Cook moved Georgia to Likely Democrat. But CNN says other GOP groups mostly kept their reservations, Semafor says tens o
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Some Republicans blame Trump for the unpopular Iran war, for dismissing fuel prices and for engaging late.
The story assigns this to 'some Republicans,' a vague group, via the AP story. Polls support the war's unpopularity: CNN/SSRS has 26% approving his handling of Iran, Quinnipiac 28/66 and NBC 62% saying not worth it. The PBS/AP piece reports Trump calling gas prices 'an inexpensive price to pay.'