They’ll clap, but will they campaign with Trump?

Stuck in the middle is Ohio Congressman Steve Stivers, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast could not name a single battleground district where he’d send President Trump, despite the president’s promise earlier this month to campaign for Republicans four to five days a week into the fall.

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“He will be helpful in many, many places,” Stivers said. “In almost every district, there are chunks of voters that he can be helpful with.”

Asked to name one such district, Stivers pointed to the March 13 special election in the Pennsylvania 18th, a heavily Republican open seat outside of Pittsburgh, where Trump traveled last week for an event he said was to support the Republican candidate (though White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later maintained that the taxpayer-funded trip was all official business).

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