, Columnist
Pennsylvania Sends Tough Message to Republicans
A Democrat is close to victory in a special congressional election where Trump won by 20 percentage points.
Republican anxiety about the midterm congressional elections has been building throughout President Donald Trump’s first year in the White House. Now it’s about to explode.
A Democrat was clinging to a 641-vote lead after all the votes were counted in a special congressional election in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday. In a heavily Republican district that Trump carried by almost 20 percentage points in 2016, that’s a big problem for Republicans even in the unlikely event that a recount changes the result.