Senate Republicans arm in arm with Trump as midterm elections enter homestretch
by David M. Drucker
| September 02, 2018 12:00 AM
Senate Republicans head into the homestretch of a promising midterm election campaign arm in arm with President Trump, a mutually beneficial alliance that was hardly predictable at this time last year.
Last Labor Day, tensions flared over the collapse of legislation to repeal Obamacare and emotions were raw in the aftermath of a white supremacist march on Charlottesville, Va., with charges and counter-charges flying from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Fast-forward 12 months: the infighting has largely ceased, as have the public airing of grievances.
The president and his Senate allies have put lingering differences aside to focus on expanding their party’s slim, 50-seat majority. A string of shared accomplishments, plus a 2018 battleground that runs right through the heart of Trump country, have helped keep afloat this once-unlikely détente.
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