For Republican Leaders in Congress, the Headaches Keep Mounting<br />That and the uncertain prospects of Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who is facing a Trump-inspired primary challenger from the right, could endanger<br />the Senate majority or at least offset any gains Republicans make in the conservative states where Democrats are facing re-election next year.<br />Speaking at a high-dollar fund-raiser for his re-election at Le Cirque restaurant in New York last week, Mr. Trump asked contributors what they would<br />think if he worked with Democrats on health care, should Republicans prove unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to a dinner attendee.<br />Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, who was first elected to Congress in 1978, said he<br />had never seen rank-and-file Republicans so stirred up against the party’s leaders in Congress.
