Looking to 2020, both Democrats and Republicans see costs and benefits of Trump's 'MAGA' rallies in midterm election results
WASHINGTON - Fresh off the midterm elections, and now gearing up for 2020, both parties are grappling with one of the most confounding spectacles in modern politics: President Donald Trump's free-wheeling rallies.
Not Trump. He believes they are so valuable to Republicans that he held two in one night Monday, to help embattled Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith win a surprisingly competitive Senate runoff election in Mississippi on Tuesday. At each, he boasted that his performances in past months - filling arenas in other red states, in mid-sized cities and rural outposts - had not only preserved but enlarged Republicans' Senate majority. He took no blame for the party's overwhelming loss of its House majority.
For Republicans, that split result - and the party's losses more broadly - leaves them conflicted. Some Democrats, however, believe they may have solved part of their riddle: Do
