Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control
- 6 years ago
Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control
Ms. Robinson, who said she voted for Mrs. Clinton last year as the “lesser of
two evils,” said she would not reward a lawmaker allied with the White House.
But Robert Blizzard, a pollster who advises Mr. Barr, offered a stern assessment of the national political environment:
“If there are Republicans who are not taking this seriously,” he said, “they will get swept out.”
Democrats have dreamed for years of peeling away the rings around major cities, separating suburban voters who favor conservative tax and economic policies from a Republican Party
that also champions harder-right positions on abortion, guns and gay rights.
“There’s an anxiousness,” Mr. Gray said, “and a sense that things just aren’t right.”
Mr. Trump won Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District handily, while Mr. Gray carried it in a losing Senate campaign the same year.
The new president, Mr. Russell said, has accelerated things: “They were Republicans for fiscal reasons,
and Trump has alienated them from the party they used to belong to.”
It is not hard to find such voters in the Illinois district of Representative Peter Roskam,
which favored Mrs. Clinton by seven points and has a median income over $90,000.
Ms. Robinson, who said she voted for Mrs. Clinton last year as the “lesser of
two evils,” said she would not reward a lawmaker allied with the White House.
But Robert Blizzard, a pollster who advises Mr. Barr, offered a stern assessment of the national political environment:
“If there are Republicans who are not taking this seriously,” he said, “they will get swept out.”
Democrats have dreamed for years of peeling away the rings around major cities, separating suburban voters who favor conservative tax and economic policies from a Republican Party
that also champions harder-right positions on abortion, guns and gay rights.
“There’s an anxiousness,” Mr. Gray said, “and a sense that things just aren’t right.”
Mr. Trump won Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District handily, while Mr. Gray carried it in a losing Senate campaign the same year.
The new president, Mr. Russell said, has accelerated things: “They were Republicans for fiscal reasons,
and Trump has alienated them from the party they used to belong to.”
It is not hard to find such voters in the Illinois district of Representative Peter Roskam,
which favored Mrs. Clinton by seven points and has a median income over $90,000.