Article snippet: Republicans are growing increasingly worried they will lose the suburbs for a second election in a row — this time with MORE at the top of the ticket in 2020. The GOP forfeited the House in 2018, largely after losing suburban women voters, a key voting bloc that turns out at the polls but with whom Trump has proved particularly unpopular since becoming president. The suburbs could also pose a threat to Trump’s reelection chances as well as a number of vulnerable Senate Republicans facing uphill reelection battles in states such as Colorado, Maine, North Carolina and Arizona. The GOP currently holds a narrow 53-47 majority in the upper chamber. Republican lawmakers and strategists say they face an even bigger challenge winning back suburban House districts, especially given Trump’s controversial actions in recent days. The president has sent conflicting signals on taxes and gun reforms, retaliated against a European ally that refused to discuss a sale of Greenland to the U.S., lashed out at Jewish Democrats as “disloyal,” attacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as an “enemy,” and suggested the next Group of Seven summit should be held at his own private Florida golf resort. “Trump's not making any inroads in the suburbs. People either love him or hate him, and that's solidifying into concrete in the suburbs,” one House GOP lawmaker told The Hill. “This style is not helping that." Former Rep. MORE (R-N.J.), who represented an affluent, well-educated su... Link to the full article to read more
GOP fears Trump backlash in suburbs | TheHill
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