Many many voters do not associate president with party. Just us diehards on the right and left do. Obama got elected twice but Dems lost House and Senate during his terms.
Trump will win PA in 2020 but it doesn’t mean all those Dems and Indies that vote for him will vote for other Republicans. They view him independently.
Those are very good points. I know that we are at a disadvantage since we have all 3 branches right now and I expect to lose some. However, we seem to be losing the easy ones. We aren’t even talking purple areas. We are getting slaughtered in deep red areas. The easy elections are the hardest to lose. These elections are typically our security blankets. When we lose those, good grief the slaughter in November will be ugly.