“With less than six weeks to go until Election Day, the sentiment among Republicans is shifting from nervous to fatalistic, as a pileup of bad news has many convinced they are heading toward an electoral disaster,” Time reports.
“The warning signs are coming in quickly from across the map—much on it from red states where President Trump won comfortably just two years ago.”
NewsNation: Trump’s polls sink further in warning sign for GOP.
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“The White House has launched another taxpayer-funded television ad before the midterms, this time featuring imagery of President Donald Trump walking down a hall as audio plays of him saying ‘this is the final battle,’” CNN reports.
Said Trump: “We will cast out the communist, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”
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“Election experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting,” The Guardian reports.
“With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of U.S. Congress in the balance, the post-election ‘counting window’ is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former U.S. federal government officials.”
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Ron Brownstein: “The outcome of the 2026 election will be determined primarily by how well Republicans play defense across the growing list of GOP-held House and Senate seats Democrats are targeting. But the GOP is also hoping to play offense by flipping some House and Senate seats Democrats now control.”
“Because of their redistricting maneuvers, Republicans have more opportunities to flip House seats held by the other side than is typical for the president’s party in midterm elections. In the Senate, Republicans are seriously targeting four Democratic-held seats. But in both chambers, the same collapse in President Donald Trump’s approval rating that is threatening so many GOP incumbents is dimming the party’s prospects of unseating many Democrats.”
Another Bonus Quote of the Day
“The House has been kind of a done deal for a good while.”
— Charlie Cook, quoted by Mediaite.