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RandySF

(76,096 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:30 AM Monday

How Trump's game-planning for the 2026 midterms

President Trump is already fixated behind the scenes on next year's midterm elections for the House and Senate — unleashing his billion-dollar political operation and personally burrowing into the minutiae of races.

Why it matters: Now that his "big beautiful bill" has passed Congress, Trump's ability to accomplish more big things there — and avoid impeachment — hinges on keeping the GOP's razor-thin majorities in both chambers of Congress in his last two years in office.

Zoom in: Even with all that's swirling around Trump — foreign conflicts, deportations, tariffs, the Jeffrey Epstein fallout — he's micro-level focused on 2026 races.

One example: Trump's been particularly locked in on the already messy GOP Senate primary in Texas, where polls indicate Sen. John Cornyn is trailing scandal-plagued state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a longtime Trump loyalist.



https://www.axios.com/2025/07/21/trump-2026-midterms-congress-control

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We will easily take back the house Fiendish Thingy Monday #1

Fiendish Thingy

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1. We will easily take back the house
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 09:56 AM
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Even if Texas gerrymanders five more seats for the GOP.

And at this rate, even taking the senate is starting to look possible.

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