Republicans might have followed Democrats to line up for statewide offices and Congress, too, if they had a shot at winning some of them, said Cornell Clayton, a political science professor at Washington State University.
Statewide elections already prove tough for Republicans to win… and divisive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could increase statewide turnout even more than normal in Democrats’ favor, Clayton said.
“Republicans (in Washington) are going to be running in a headwind given who is running at the top of their ticket in the general election right now,” he said.