Tax cuts offer Republicans a Trump-free campaign option


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 Feb 2018

U.S. Senator Rob Portman answers question about the effect of Tax Cuts & Jobs Act during his tour of Ohio in Zanesville, Ohio, U.S., February 23, 2018. Picture takes on February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Palmer

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - As Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman spoke to small-business owners over the weekend in his home state of Ohio, he hammered on a major election-year theme for Republicans - that tax cuts are helping the little guy.

What did not come up in his talk in Zanesville was the more complicated topic of Republican President Donald Trump, whose victory in Ohio in 2016 helped propel him to the White House.

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