Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control<br />Ms. Robinson, who said she voted for Mrs. Clinton last year as the “lesser of<br />two evils,” said she would not reward a lawmaker allied with the White House.<br />But Robert Blizzard, a pollster who advises Mr. Barr, offered a stern assessment of the national political environment:<br />“If there are Republicans who are not taking this seriously,” he said, “they will get swept out.”<br />Democrats have dreamed for years of peeling away the rings around major cities, separating suburban voters who favor conservative tax and economic policies from a Republican Party<br />that also champions harder-right positions on abortion, guns and gay rights.<br />“There’s an anxiousness,” Mr. Gray said, “and a sense that things just aren’t right.”<br />Mr. Trump won Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District handily, while Mr. Gray carried it in a losing Senate campaign the same year.<br />The new president, Mr. Russell said, has accelerated things: “They were Republicans for fiscal reasons,<br />and Trump has alienated them from the party they used to belong to.”<br />It is not hard to find such voters in the Illinois district of Representative Peter Roskam,<br />which favored Mrs. Clinton by seven points and has a median income over $90,000.
