Donald’s Party is worried
So is his White House staff who ARE looking at another two years dealing with a unfriendly Congress and a boss who seems determined to give them headaches and stomach aches EVERY Day…
The problem starts at the TOP….
(Not with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles….Who has Stephen Miller longing for the top job…Miller would probably be a disaster for Trump…)
From a man who exists in a Alternate Universe and does NOT LISTEN…
Just goes with his “gut’ which seems to be giving his 80 year old body issues….
White House aides, who have kept clashes muted during President Donald Trump’s second term, have begun jostling more openly for power as they brace for widespread midterm election losses and internal upheaval, according to interviews with 20 staffers, advisers and people close to the president.
Believing that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles might step down after the election, a handful of Trump aides, including Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, top housing official Bill Pulte and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, have begun angling for the position should it become available.
Wiles has given no indication to aides or allies that she plans to leave. Still, high-level White House staffers frequently cycle out of their stressful jobs after 18 months to two years, and Trump had four chiefs of staff, including an acting one, during his first term.
The past week in the White House has been “the new Wild Wild West,” one Trump ally said….
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For longtime observers of Trump’s inner circle, the friction this week harks back to his first term, when shifting factions of aides and family members vied for power and undermined one another in the process — a pattern this White House has mostly avoided, until now.
Compounding the uncertainty is the president, who has told allies he feels frustrated that no one is publicly defending him as vociferously as he would like 18 days before the midterm elections. Trump has embarked on a frenzied schedule of campaign rallies in the final stretch to juice enthusiasm among the Republican faithful, but with a historically low approval rating and growing voter frustration about high prices, he and the Republican Party face major political headwinds…
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Internal GOP polling shows that support for Republican candidates cratered after the party’s midterm convention in Dallas, with voters saying the party was not attuned to their economic concerns, according to a Republican strategist briefed on the numbers. Rather than campaigning extensively in September, Trump spent much of the month hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House and working on his construction projects, including a new White House helipad and his proposed ballroom…..
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