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GOP strategist warns 'bottom is dropping out' as Trump faces 'wipeout’
What happened
AlterNet reports that Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett warned a midterm “wipeout could be coming,” arguing that President Donald Trump has given Republican candidates neither governing results to promote nor an agenda to offer voters. Bartlett said GOP officials fear support could deteriorate further before Election Day.
That warning rests partly on two polls: a Wall Street Journal survey placing Trump’s approval at 37 percent—the poll’s lowest recorded for an incumbent president approaching a midterm since 1990—and a Reuters/Ipsos poll from the previous month putting it…
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