A Republican Midterm Defeat Will Not Be an Earthquake

Ed Luce: “It is only a slight exaggeration to say that since Republican lawmakers do not have control of Congress, they cannot really lose it. Though Trump treats Congress like a Duma, sufficient handfuls of Republicans have joined Democrats to block some of his wishes. Foremost of these is a bill to impose draconian ID requirements on voters.”

“For the most part, however, Congress has been irrelevant in the last 20 months.”