Arizona, long a Republican bastion, targeted by Clinton

Current party breakdown: 54 Republicans, 44 Democrats, two independents who caucus with the Democrats.

Democrats can focus on congressional races thus – 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 in the Senate.

The bigger problem for Trump is recent data showing that Democrats are more solidly behind Clinton than Republicans are behind him, regardless of how much weight each party has in a poll. The newspaper endorsed Clinton, its first embrace of a Democrat for president in its 126-year history. Ted Cruz said Thursday at an event in Denton County, one of the state’s most Republican counties. Mejia, who took one of his sons out of school to attend the rally, said he comes from a Republican family and agrees “with the Republicans’ principles, but they’ve taken it so far they’ve lost a lot of us in the middle”.

“Officers are held to a different standard because “Michigan Republican Party” is part of their title, and when they speak, they are reflecting the party as a whole”, she said.

Republicans are discussing how to deal with any potential trickle down from the presidential race, said Hatchett. In addition to his tepid support for Rubio in the Florida race, Trump has also criticized Sen. On the other hand, if the real target of the new GOP strategy is dispirited Republican-leaning voters who need a reason to go to the polls, this might not backfire among them in particular.

But Obama’s argument was broader than Heck, implicating the entire Republican Party – because when his presidency was shadowed by hateful conspiracy theories, the president alleged, Donald Trump wasn’t acting alone. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant icon and Trump backer, is trailing his Democratic opponent by 15 points in polling by the Republic. Both are being hit with ads bolstering their Democratic challengers _ Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan.

Paul Ryan is losing the popularity race among Republican voters.

Conway laid out in granular detail Trump’s potential path to winning: victories in Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada and OH, to start. She said Democratic candidate and American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Deborah Ross knows that Trump “is wrong for America”.

Republicans have always been playing defense in a crowded Senate map, with 24 seats in play, at least 10 of which are in swing states, compared to Democrats’ 10.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged the rough terrain for his party during an end-of-term press conference in late September.

-Florida: GOP Sen. Marco Rubio is in good shape due to a solid campaign and Democrats’ reluctance to invest heavily in the expensive state to back Rep. Patrick Murphy.

Trump has previously personally mentioned Rubio, but even that reference on October 11 shows how contentious his relationship with the man he used to call “Little Marco” appears to be. The effect would be presidential elections determined by the 50 states – very much what the founding fathers wanted. Donald Trump has emerged from years of fear-mongering and conspiratorial thinking within the party. It also found that 66 percent of respondents expect Republicans to try to block Clinton even if it means more gridlock and inaction in Washington, while only 23 percent think they will work constructively with Clinton, meaning they’re prepared to believe GOP control means more obstruction. Rob Portman in OH, whose campaign ran several ads focusing on his work combating the prescription drug and heroin addiction crisis in his state. Portman is widely expected to prevail regardless of Trump’s performance.

Former presidential candidate John McCain made remarks last week that basically outlined a scenario in which a Clinton win would trigger four years of Republicans blocking any Supreme Court nominee put forward by the incoming president.