Poll: Health-care failure takes toll on Trump, GOP

The recent death of the GOP’s party-line effort to overhaul former President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 health care law, the Affordable Care Act, also raised the specter of electoral pain for Republicans on Capitol Hill. In the new survey, 44 percent of registered voters said they would vote for a Democratic candidate for Congress if the election were held today, compared with 37 percent who said they’d back a GOP candidate.

That’s a 7-point swing in Democrats’ direction since last week, when voters were split at 40 percent for each party. Most of the movement toward the Democratic side of the ballot was driven by independents: 34 percent said they’d vote for a Democrat, up 4 points from last week, while 25 percent said they’d opt for a Republican, down 4 points.