I mentioned this the other day and it looks like it’s true. Trump is reportedly increasingly nervous about the midterms:
President Trump‘s team has launched an early and aggressive behind-the-scenes effort to maintain the GOP’s tenuous grip on the House in 2026 — and avoid his third impeachment.
Trump allies believe — with good reason — that a Democrat-controlled House would launch investigations of the president and move to impeach him. That’s exactly what happened after Democrats seized the chamber during Trump’s first term.
Midterm elections are historically tough for the party occupying the White House, and senior Republicans privately acknowledge that retaining the speaker’s gavel won’t be easy.
The twice-impeached Trump “knows the stakes firsthand. He saw what can happen. It’s clear he doesn’t want that again,” said Matt Gorman, a top official for House Republicans’ campaign arm in the 2018 midterms. “Investigations, impeachment — he knows it’s all on the table with a Speaker [Hakeem] Jeffries.”
Already, some Democrats have signaled they want to investigate Trump’s overhaul of the U.S. government, whether he manipulated markets and fostered insider trading with his tariff announcements, and whether he’s helped Elon Musk secure deals for Starlink. Then there’s that $400 million jet from Qatar. Democrats and other critics say Trump violated the Constitution by accepting the gift.
Oh that’s just for starters. It’s a smorgasbord of corruption and abuse of power. Almost too much to wrap your arms around.
But they had better do it. Yes, I know they’ll need to do the “kitchen table issues” and all that but honestly, if they win and then decide to let bygones be bygones I think we’re gone.
Anyway, Trump plans to prevent this by preventing retirements, spending big, stopping all primaries, raising a boatload of money and recruiting good candidates. I guess that’s supposed to be some kind of innovative approach?
Trump has not traditionally been very good at anything but the money part and as Elon proved in Wisconsin a couple of months ago, that’s no guarantee of anything. In fact, he’s been the kiss of death in plenty of races they could have won.
I’ll never predict another election, I don’t care what the polls or common sense tells me. But I will say this: I don’t think the midterms are going to be easy for the Republicans. All the money in the world can’t make up for what a trainwreck he has already been and will continue to be. So good luck with that.