Riding recent polling momentum and a string of off-cycle electoral victories, Democratic governors descended into the Arizona desert over the weekend, talking like leaders of a party on the upswing -- even if a mood of anxiety lingered close under the surface, with direct attacks from the Trump administration on their states and on upcoming elections hanging in the balance.

At the Democratic Governors Association's annual Winter meeting at the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix, some of the brightest leaders of the party touted the "affordability" message that recently resonated with a coalition of voters across left-leaning New York City to suburban moderates in New Jersey and Virginia, while also sounding the alarm over a White House moving aggressively to tilt the rules of the r

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