GOP faces massive voter rejection in November
Abigail Tracy writes on "Vanity Fair's Website: "Caught between the president’s rabid, loyal base and suburban women, Republican candidates may not survive a blue wave election...
“'These races are like canaries in the coal mine,' Steve Israel, a former New York congressman and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told me last week. 'For Republicans, the canaries are dying.'
"The Republican Party has had a reversal of fortune -- losing gubernatorial races and dozens of state legislature seats in Virginia and New Jersey, and suffering defeats in traditionally red districts in Florida, Wisconsin, Alabama, Oklahoma, and elsewhere...
"[T]he new Republican boogeyman is the leader of the party...while Trump’s popularity has largely proven to be non-transferable, his flagging approval rating -- which, despite a recent uptick, is still hovering in the low 40s -- augurs suppressed Republican turnout and heightened energy on the left in the midterms..."
“'These races are like canaries in the coal mine,' Steve Israel, a former New York congressman and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told me last week. 'For Republicans, the canaries are dying.'
"The Republican Party has had a reversal of fortune -- losing gubernatorial races and dozens of state legislature seats in Virginia and New Jersey, and suffering defeats in traditionally red districts in Florida, Wisconsin, Alabama, Oklahoma, and elsewhere...
"[T]he new Republican boogeyman is the leader of the party...while Trump’s popularity has largely proven to be non-transferable, his flagging approval rating -- which, despite a recent uptick, is still hovering in the low 40s -- augurs suppressed Republican turnout and heightened energy on the left in the midterms..."