Democrats ask: Where’s FLOTUS?

Her husband, by contrast, has held four dozen fundraisers so far — with more planned despite attacks from Republicans for keeping up that schedule in the face of world crises.

That limited involvement isn’t sitting well with Democratic strategists worried about the amount of outside spending pouring into midterm campaigns. Field operations alone are going to cost many multiples of what they did last cycle, and tough decisions about which races to cut off are getting closer by the day.

The first lady’s potential, people on the ground say, is huge.