Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is warning his party that President Trump’s low approval ratings could erase the GOP’s structural political advantages heading into 2018.

The Republicans are defending fewer Senate seats in the midterm, in generally friendlier territory, than the Democrats. Nearly a dozen Democrats are running for re-election in states President Trump won in November.

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