“Speaker Paul Ryan got President Trump on the phone Sunday for one final plea on behalf of anxious Republicans: Please, please talk up the booming economy in the final hours before Election Day,” Politico reports.
“But Trump, unsurprisingly, had another issue on his mind. He boasted to Ryan that his focus on immigration has fired up the base.”
“Two days out from an expected Democratic takeover of the House, Republicans focused on the chamber are profoundly worried that Trump’s obsession with all things immigration will exacerbate their losses.”
Said one senior GOP aide: “Trump has hijacked the election. This is not what we expected the final weeks of the election to focus on.”
