Strong Performance by Democrat Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania Shakes Trump and G.O.P.NY Times, Mar 14, 2018, PETER BAKER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
President Trump woke up here in the land of earthquakes on Wednesday morning, but he was 2,500 miles away from the tremor that was really shaking his party.
While the president hobnobbed with wealthy donors in the exclusive enclave of Beverly Park on Tuesday night, the voters in the suburbs south of Pittsburgh were in revolt, giving the Democratic candidate a narrow lead in a special election in Pennsylvania that was taking on outsize proportions.
Just as they did outside Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala., in December, and Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., in November, energized and angry suburban voters were swamping the Trump stalwarts in the more rural parts of those regions, sending a clear message to Republicans around the country.
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