Can Democrats leverage Trump's legal problems in the midterm elections or will they overreach?
WASHINGTON - Mounting legal problems confronting President Donald Trump and the GOP are rattling the political map nationwide, forcing Democratic and Republican candidates alike to rethink strategies just weeks before the midterm elections.
And the debate around impeachment - or as many Democrats prefer to frame it, the "culture of Republican corruption" in Washington - promises to dominate scores of congressional races.
"If you didn't think the midterms were about impeachment, you certainly do now," said Michael Caputo, who was a Trump campaign adviser. "The Republican chances of maintaining the House got dramatically slimmer."
As if the convictions and guilty pleas of close Trump associates were not trouble enough, he said, the recent indictments of two Republican House members who were
