[Yogafist]

More of Trump’s problems come from Congressional Republicans who don’t defend him.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

More of Trump’s problems come from Congressional Republicans who don’t defend him.

We need to primary out as many of them as we can in 2018.

[Alberta's Child]

Congressional Republicans can't defend President Trump because he and his staff are all over the map on a lot of things that are big stories in the media right now. Put yourself in the shoes of a Republican Congressman right now. When you have Sean Spicer and Donald Trump saying two diametrically opposed things about the same story (the firing of James Comey, for example), you have no way of knowing how the hell to "defend" the president.

P.S. -- This was a huge factor in the 2016 House and Senate elections, especially in close Senate races. Republican Senate candidates like Kelly Ayotte (NH) and Joe Heck (NV) who publicly distanced themselves from Trump ended up losing, while candidates like Rob Portman (OH) and Pat Toomey (PA) who simply ignored Trump did better than expected.