“It certainly is going to be really, really tough if we don’t, you know, start to kind of, at least on some level, get some of these places open and get people back to work,” McLaughlin said. ADBut embattled incumbents are not receiving the lion’s share of credit for those efforts, McLaughlin added, citing polling Republicans have conducted. “The problem and the room to improve is, is not a lot of voters associate it with the members of Congress. AD“Concern about what the ballot looks like is not what we’re going after,” McLaughlin said. ADTrump’s handling of the pandemic and the collapse of the economy have boosted the Democrats’ odds, analysts said.

Source: Washington Post April 30, 2020 06:32 UTC