Special elections give GOP pause

SEBASTIAN, Fla. – Was Florida whispering? Was Wisconsin shouting? Suddenly these two questions, rooted in states that Donald Trump carried only five months ago, are at the forefront of American political discussion and calculation.

As Trump presses forward with tariffs like a 21st-century incarnation of Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley, and as Elon Musk continues marching though the federal bureaucracy…