Republicans see no Helsinki effect on 2018 midterm elections

Published July 21, 2018 4:00am ET



Republican senators say they’re not worried that President Trump’s much-criticized performance at his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will hurt Republicans in the midterm elections in November, and are predicting that the event will be forgotten by then.

“I don’t think it’s the kind of foreign policy issue that has a lot of long-term resonance with voters, and might not even have much short-term resonance with voters,” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo, told the Washington Examiner. “You’ve got to assume that the president will bring up many things between now and then that will send people on a different direction.”

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