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 With two weeks until Election Day — and millions of votes already cast — the clock is ticking for Republicans as Democrats reprise their successful midterm strategy of warning that the administration and the GOP want to end mandated coverage for preexisting medical conditions.
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Republican voters appear to be splitting into two distinct groups, in a way that makes these Senate Republicans hesitate.
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 MANDEL NGAN/GettyThree weeks before Election Day, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) stood outside the veterans' hospital in the Denver suburb of Aurora, in front of the cameras and flanked by Robert Wilkie, the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
It was exactly the kind of event that an incumbent facing a tough election, like Gardner, needs to have these days —a chance to demonstrate Washington clout by appearing next to a Cabinet official while hammering home a commitment to resolving an important and entirely uncontroversial home-state issue. The event was covered in local TV news and newspaper headlines, all of which broadcast Gardner's desire to secure a new VA hospital for Colorado Springs. Though other federal lawmakers were invited, none came, giving Gardner the spotlight.
That scene has been replicated around the country in the home stretch of the 2020 election, with Donald Trump's presidency and the Senate majority on the line for Republicans. Over the past three months, several Trump administration Cabinet officials have touched down in battleground states or districts to join prominent local Republicans, frequently those facing tough elections, for press events and photo ops, according to a Daily Beast review of Cabinet officials' schedules and social media accounts.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 President Trump on Tuesday said Attorney General William Barr needs to "act" and "appoint somebody" after nearly a dozen House Republicans urged him to tap a special counsel to investigate alleged revelations coming from a laptop purported to have belonged to Joe Biden's son Hunter.
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