After embarrassing election in Pennsylvania, Republicans wonder whether tax cuts will save them in November
WASHINGTON - The most dangerous outcome for Republicans in Tuesday's special House election is not the prospect of a Democrat taking over one of their seats.
It was the shrugging off by voters of the party's biggest legislative achievement: the tax cut measure that Republicans hoped would be their major campaign message as they head toward a turbulent midterm election.
Though the popularity of Trump's tax plan has grown since it was passed last year, it seemed to have stalled as an election issue in Pennsylvania, leading Republicans to shift away from it late in the campaign in search of another topic to energize supporters of state legislator Rick Saccone.
"It looks like it just petered out," pollster Patrick Murray of the nonpartisan Monmouth University Polling Institute said of
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