Trump’s Cuellar Pardon Shifts Rating to Lean Democrat

“President Donald Trump has gone to extreme lengths to shore up Republicans’ tenuous hold on the House — going as far as pressuring state legislators to redraw their congressional maps to net their party a single seat,” the Cook Political Report reports.

“But he’s now inadvertently compromised his party’s ability to flip one competitive seat by pardoning its congressman, Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar.”