From hardscrabble mining communities to affluent New Jersey suburbs, GOP attacks on the economy are forcing Democratic House candidates in must-win Northeast districts to confront an issue that has bedeviled them.
Persistent inflation and fears of a recession have become a simple rallying cry for Republicans who blame economic woes on spending by President Joe Biden and Democrats. For Democrats, the counterattack is more complicated.
The party’s incumbents in three toss-up districts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey — Tom Malinowski, Matt Cartwright and Susan Wild — are rushing to write closing arguments on the make-or-break issue of the November election.
