CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Davis has a simple formula for winning over President Donald Trump’s supporters in his Kansas race for Congress: He talks about kitchen table issues, like prescription drug prices and farm tariffs. And he is in no hurry to announce he’s a Democrat. Davis and other party moderates believe that neglected rural and working-class voters in Midwestern districts helped cost Democrats the 2016 election. Trump won, they note, with strong support from socially conservative voters in Midwestern states, including many who used to vote Democratic…Now Davis and other moderate Democrats are trying to woo those voters back, and the party’s hopes in the November election could rest on their success. The battle for the House of Representatives is increasingly focused on places like Kansas’ second, which includes the state capital Topeka and the university town of Lawrence but also large wheat and soybean farms. Democrats will likely have to take some Republican-leaning districts like this one to recapture the house, and doing so will require winning over Trump voters.”
–Susan Cornwell, James Oliphant, “An impossible dream? Democrats try to connect with Trump voters,” Reuters, April 27, 2018 4:03 am