WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump is caught in an unrelenting swirl of scandal, and President Barack Obama's signature health care law is still intact. Democratic energy is unbridled, and Republican enthusiasm is uncertain.
Republicans enter the homestretch of the 2018 campaign season gripped by a long list of anxieties as they attempt to maintain their majorities in both chambers of Congress, a mission that, to some top strategists, looks increasingly daunting.
But their biggest fear, according to conversations with a dozen GOP strategists and pollsters, is that Republicans won't be able match the motivation of an expanding Democratic base that is enraged and emboldened by Trump's presidency.
