“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and NRSC Chair Steve Daines are grappling with an uncomfortable reality: Republican Senate challengers are lagging well behind former President Trump in public surveys,” Axios reports.
“The polling gap has baffled Republican candidates and strategists, who expected it to collapse as November neared.
”“Its persistence is a warning for the Republican high command that a close Trump victory in any given swing state doesn’t guarantee a GOP Senate seat — even if it also signals a bloc of still-persuadable voters.”