ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A low-profile Republican congressman from northeast Ohio has gone where few in his party have dared this campaign season: He has bragged to his constituents that he has stood up to President Trump. In an election year when many Republicans have slavishly courted the president’s validation and endorsement, and others have been reluctant, even afraid, to criticize him, Representative David Joyce has gingerly risked Trumpian wrath…His defiance was not all that drastic: The congressman said he moved to protect Lake Erie and the federal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which the Trump administration had tried to kill. The ad is nowhere to be found on his website or on YouTube…But it is a small crack in Mr. Trump’s wall of support, which has pushed brasher presidential critics in the party, like Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona, to retirement. In Minnesota, Representative Erik Paulsen, who is locked in a tight race, also aired an ad saying he would stand up to the president or his party on the issue of mining near pristine waters.”
–Michael Tackett, “Anomaly or Omen? A House Republican Tells Voters He ‘Stood Up’ to Trump,” The New york Times online, August 15, 2018