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Some are, but most are keen on the principle of letting sleeping dogs lie. Democratic voters don’t need any more motivation, and a candidate who loudly made Trump the issue, even in a district that leans Democratic, might rouse enough Trump voters to make an election closer than it should be. The great exception to this is a band of candidates, including a few incumbents, who vow to pursue impeachment proceedings against Trump if Democrats take the House. The alleged impeachable offense varies from the president’s imagined violations of the Constitution’s emoluments clause to the still-
More ominous is the notable lack of intensity among the people who do like Trump. Fully 90% of Republicans approve of the president, but fewer than 50% of them “strongly approve.” Nationwide, according to a recent CNN survey, nearly half of potential voters “strongly disapprove” of him – meaning if you don’t like the president, you really, really don’t like him and will happily share this opinion in the voting booth. That imbalance in enthusiasm is likely to hold until November 6 and beyond. You’d think Democratic candidates on the campaign trail would be flogging Trump like a rented mule and make him issue No. 1.
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