“Senate Republicans have one big, beautiful problem on their hands as they struggle to streamline messaging about the party’s tax cut law and overcome President Donald Trump’s international spats, which are casting a long shadow and doing little favor to the extended sales pitch,” NOTUS reports. “Even amid a worsening political environment, Republicans have hung their hats on their hopes of being able to sell what they consider to be popular items of last year’s tax cut package to voters. Those hopes, however, are running headfirst into reality as the midterm elections wind closer and they struggle to break through an avalanche of news, much of it headlined by the Iran war.”