Traditional Republican pollsters and strategists said hewing too closely to Mr. Trump’s incendiary strategy could contain more risk than reward for candidates in the campaign’s final days. Polling suggests that the same suburban independents who broke for Mr. Trump in the final days of the 2016 election could shift back to Democrats this time around. “The problem is Republicans have a good story to tell in the economy,” said Mike Murphy, a former adviser to Jeb Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Republicans are defending many seats in diverse metropolitan regions where the president’s heated language could prove a hindrance. Mr. Trump even acknowledged at his rally Friday that Republicans could lose the House, saying, “it could happen, could happen.”

Source: New York Times November 03, 2018 00:53 UTC