During the presidency of Donald Trump, the GOP lost significant ground in the suburbs as he alienated voters with his pugnacious style and self-serving rhetoric. Now the party is trying to win back many of those voters.
Republicans’ path to control of the US House winds through suburbs like the ones that ring the sprawling metropolis of Las Vegas here in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, where Democratic Rep. Susie Lee is fighting for a third term. During the presidency of Donald Trump, the GOP lost significant ground in the suburbs as he alienated voters with his pugnacious style and self-serving rhetoric.
” In Oregon’s 6th District, which also includes parts of suburban Portland, an ad attacking Democratic state legislator Andrea Salinas from the National Republican Congressional Committee and GOP opponent Mike Erickson states that Salinas “voted numerous times to defund the police,” but none of the bills cited in the ad defunded the police. Salinas told the Salem Statesman Journal the accusation was “patently false.
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