Mike Allen: “A House Republican aide explains that Trump’s approval ratings are like barbells: bulging favorables and unfavorables on each end, and few in the middle who have no opinion or are persuadable.”
Said the aide: “Those unfav folks are coming out. It’s so, so crucial to get those base voters.”
“That, in a nutshell, is why Trump headlined three boisterous ‘Make America Great Again’ rallies in five days Florida on Tuesday, Pennsylvania on Thursday and Ohio last night.”
“The raucous rallies aren’t meant to convert or persuade: They’re about turning Trump voters in 2016 into voters for local and state Republicans in 2018 — a process that President Obama discovered was anything but automatic with Democrats in his midterms.”
