House Republicans are mulling how many blows their majority can withstand after President Trump and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a White House ally, were implicated in fresh corruption scandals.
The separate allegations, involving unseemly violations of campaign finance law, surfaced the same day that Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was found guilty on federal charges related to the Russia probe. Just 11 weeks before the midterm elections, senior Republican strategists are warning the revelations could supercharge Democratic turnout and subvert GOP strategy to avoid a November disaster.
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