Economic woes transform the Midwest into a massive midterms battleground

Economic woes transform the Midwest into a massive midterms battleground

By Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny, CNN Cincinnati (CNN) — Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and doubt about President Donald Trump’s willingness to change the nation’s trajectory threaten to loosen the GOP’s grip on working-class voters. A decade after the Trump era began, when he first turned Midwestern political battlegrounds into reliably Republican states, the fallout from policies of his second te…