The only wall the Republicans really care about at this point is the wall they've built around Trump to try to survive the Russia collusion storm, but they're starting to realize that unlike Trump, House Republicans actually facing re-election in 2018 are in dire trouble and many of them will not keep their seats, regardless. Cracks are appearing in the wall, big ones. Just ask Arizona GOP Rep. Martha McSally.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Republican who fully expects to lose her job in 2018.
Congresswoman Martha McSally may be in more political trouble than she's been letting on.
Team McSally has been poo-pooing recent polls showing that more than half of the voters in her district disapprove of her job performance, while her approval has fallen down to the mid-30s, percentage-wise, and that she was losing to a generic Democrat by 7 percentage points.
But last week, in a private talk to the Arizona Bankers Association, McSally conceded that in the current political environment, she has some real challenges in next year's election.
McSally complained that President Donald Trump and his tweets were creating troubling "distractions" and "it's basically being taken out on me. Any Republican member of Congress, you are going down with the ship. And we're going to hand the gavel to Pelosi in 2018, they only need 28 seats and the path to that gavel being handed over is through my seat. And right now, it doesn't matter that it's me, it doesn't matter what I've done. I have an 'R' next to my name and right now, this environment would have me not prevail."
There will be a lot more of them admitting this and soon.
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