Dems shrug off recent good news for GOP

BY AMIE PARNES AND MIKE LILLIS - 02/07/18 06:00 AM EST

Democrats are shrugging off a series of favorable polls and news cycles for Republicans, arguing it has done little if anything to change the trajectory of a midterm election year they believe will end with losses for the GOP.

They say the electorate is exhausted with President Trump, and in the end they predict that Republicans in Congress will feel the pain.

At least in public, Democrats are also relatively dismissive of polls showing their party’s advantage on the generic House ballot narrowing and public approval of the tax-cut bill and Trump rising.

“There’s no question and no surprise that Republican numbers are improving. They’ve surged from miserable to mediocre,” said former Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), who headed up the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2014. “But Democrats have massive energy on their side, and this president has a skill for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”

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