The Mueller report may be consuming Washington — but it barely registers for vulnerable Democrats meeting voters outside the Beltway
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“In the big spectrum of everything, people are still deeply concerned about prescription drug prices,” Spanberger said. “People are still deeply concerned about the opportunity to get their kids education. They’re wanting to see Washington focused on immigration reform.”Sign Up The release of the long-awaited Mueller report has propelled House Democrats into an intense new phase of their investigation of President Donald Trump. But in battleground districts like Spanberger’s, many freshman Democrats say Mueller’s explosive findings haven’t really connectedIt’s a reality that underscores how reluctant these lawmakers will be to focus all their energy on oversight — not to mention impeachment — of Trump at the cost of the agenda they campaigned on in 2018.
Phillips said he sees Mueller mentioned much more on Twitter than in his district events. For him, immigration has been a far more dominant issue: “If you wake up thinking you’re being deported every day, the Mueller report doesn’t really matter to you.”
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