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With Trump and his fellow Republicans expecting a full-frontal assault on the president himself, leading Democrats—from House leader Nancy Pelosi, to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Ben Ray Luján, to the party’s biggest donors and elder statesmen—advised House candidates to run hyper-local, non-hysterical campaigns that made little mention of the president.
“I’m not running against Donald Trump. I’m running against Erik Paulsen,” Dean Phillips, the newly elected Democratic representative from Minnesota’s 3rd District, told POLITICO while campaigning two days before the election. “I talk about what people want to talk about, and it’s much less about Trump than you’d think.” Paulsen, who lost by just over 11 percentage points, represents a suburban Twin Cities district that Republicans have controlled since 1960. He tried repeatedly to distance himself from Trump—whose approval rating in the 3rd District tumbled into the 30s this fall—but it was little use: Phillips branded him as a rubber-stamp for the White House, while the president himself was so irritated by Paulsen’s lack of loyalty that he insisted on sending not one but two tweets endorsing him.
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“I’m not running against Donald Trump. I’m running against Erik Paulsen,” Dean Phillips, the newly elected Democratic representative from Minnesota’s 3rd District, told POLITICO while campaigning two days before the election. “I talk about what people want to talk about, and it’s much less about Trump than you’d think.” Paulsen, who lost by just over 11 percentage points, represents a suburban Twin Cities district that Republicans have controlled since 1960. He tried repeatedly to distance himself from Trump—whose approval rating in the 3rd District tumbled into the 30s this fall—but it was little use: Phillips branded him as a rubber-stamp for the White House, while the president himself was so irritated by Paulsen’s lack of loyalty that he insisted on sending not one but two tweets endorsing him.
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