In ‘Trump vs. Obama’ House race, Trump group all in to show president’s strength

Published October 2, 2018 2:00pm ET



It has been called the House version of an election between President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama, and now a Trump-aligned group is going to bat for the GOP candidate who helped turn Michigan red in the 2016 election.

In a new TV ad starting today, the super PAC America First Action is expanding its $850,000 effort to help Lena Epstein in Michigan’s 11th District, a slightly Republican area in the central Detroit suburbs that Trump won by 4.4 percent.

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