Recent polling suggests Democrats have a chance to unseat high-profile Republican incumbents in Senate toss-ups, making a flip of the upper chamber a possibility
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, a staunch ally of the president, by two; and in Maine, Gideon narrowly leads Collins. Meanwhile, Iowa Senator, by only a point. Georgia Senatorhas also faced declining poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and bipartisan scrutiny of her stock trades after a January COVID briefing—leading her,Wednesday, to lean into her ostentatious wealth in an effort to turn her campaign around.
Even before the coronavirus crisis hit, Trump was a historically unpopular president who made not only himself, but his party vulnerable to defeat—thanks to his corruption, incompetence, and despicable behavior. But his mishandling of the pandemic has accentuated all those shortcomings, perhaps even within his previously rock-solid base. “We are starting to see more evidence that suburban voters disapprove of the way Trump is handling the coronavirus pandemic,” Democratic strategistlast month. Obviously, there is a core of supporters that will stick with Trump no matter what, like those recently
the Michigan capitol building, guns on display, in protest of the state’s shelter-in-place directives. But whatever political protection Trump’s cult of personality affords him, personally, may not extend to his allies in down-ballot races.
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