Trump promises to campaign for Republicans and says they have a winning midterm message

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday pressed Republican lawmakers facing tough reelection campaigns to run on his record in the White House despite his sagging popularity, and he pledged to campaign in all of the roughly three dozen contests that.

What happened

Voters' dim views of the economy and the war in Iran have put Republicans in a tough spot as the midterm election season enters its final stretch. But during a dinner in the Rose Garden, one of the spaces he has controversially renovated since returning to office last year, the president informed his party's most vulnerable lawmakers that they had a triumphant story to tell voters.

"All you have to do is talk about it, and you're going to win and you're going to win big, " Trump remarked a week before the party gathers in Dallas for an unusual midterm convention.

The bottom line

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