Ohio GOP leader backs Trump after state campaign dispute

It’s a well-funded Senate campaign committee run by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

But gridlock and dysfunction on Capitol Hill are here to stay.

Democrats have seized the opening, so confident as Hillary Clinton widens her presidential lead that her super PAC has started spending money in key Senate races, with more being considered for House contests.

A Democratic Senate could go a long ways to helping Clinton’s White House be successful, especially if they can move along a Supreme Court nomination and high-profile legislation early in her administration.

A growing Latino population has the state trending gradually Democratic, but not enough to put Arizona in play in 2016 in ordinary circumstances.

The state GOP in Tennessee reeled last week after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam announced he wouldn’t support Trump but instead would write in the name of his running mate, Indiana GOP Gov. Mike Pence. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire), Patrick Toomey (Pennsylvania) and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) have each issued criticisms of varying severity.

Ayotte, meanwhile, all but admitted Clinton is poised to win the White House. In 2012, about a million more people cast a ballot before election day than on it. In Dallas County, for example, a number of Democratic challengers with real shots at winning are hoping Trump will help flip districts.

Here’s the message: Elect Republicans to be a “check and balance” against Clinton.

Democrats blame some of the current negative personal perceptions of Clinton on the hard-charging tactics she’s used to try to discredit Trump, though they believe her sustained assault on Trump’s character and temperament has been crucial. Roy Blunt faces an unexpectedly strong challenge from Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander, and North Carolina, where Republican Sen. Republican Rep. Todd Young is determined to keep the seat in GOP hands. Even longtime Republican strongholds such as Utah and Arizona suddenly appear within her reach on November 8, enticing Democrats to campaign hard in territory they haven’t won for decades.

“Even as GOP leaders throughout the nation reject Trump’s disturbing and offensive campaign, the Senate Republicans have continued to stand firmly and passionately behind him”, Murphy said. The most recent data from the Pew Research Center shows that 33% of Americans are registered as Democrats, 29% as Republicans and 34% are independents.

Democrats’ opportunities for House pickups were limited by 2010 redistricting – which means Republicans are likely to retain control of at least one chamber.

Team Trump has begun to hint that, if The Donald loses, a big reason will be the “betrayal” by House Speaker Paul Ryan. Now Trump’s even complicating the task of preserving the GOP majority.

Others will lean Republican for Congress but will tilt to Clinton because they can’t stomach Trump.

But Republican senators who have agonized most over the nominee – toggling between support for and distance from Trump – are among those now in serious jeopardy.

“On Nov. 8, we have an opportunity to go back to the CT that we all remember, the place that we all grew up in”, he said. “No no no no. No”.

They concluded the S&P 500 (^GSPC) index would rise 12 percent under a Clinton presidency than if Republican rival Donald Trump wins the election.

But Republicans are increasingly anxious now that the race has spun out of control. To be sure, the Democrats can justly claim to champion family values.

Her ultimate goal is to secure a Democratic-controlled Senate – crucial to a Clinton administration’s ability to set an aggressive first-term agenda.

“No one is focused on that at all right now”.

After all, what we learned during the Republican primary was that the party’s base doesn’t care at all about what the party establishment says: Jeb Bush (remember him?), the initial insider choice, got nowhere despite a giant war chest, and Mr. Rubio, who succeeded him as the establishment favorite, did hardly better.

Similar stories are found in the race for U.S. Senate and Governor.