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Is Trump Gearing Up For a GOP Midterm Defeat?

&NewLine;<p>Some members of the GOP are growing concerned that President Trump may be ready to cave and admit defeat in the upcoming elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While publicly bashing some members of his own party for not following his agenda&comma; it’s been reported that privately President Trump admits the GOP may be facing major defeat in the Midterms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Wall Street Journal has reported through &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;anonymous sources” that he&nbsp&semi;has even told aides he doesn’t care about the outcome of the crucial November elections&comma; as his party scrambles to hold on to its razor-thin majority in Congress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Those same sources say the president has privately raged against the GOP for&comma; as he sees it&comma; failing to do enough of his bidding&period; Among other grievances&comma; Trump has vented frustrations over the party’s failure to enact his controversial SAVE Act&comma; a measure that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Publicly&comma; Trump has repeatedly complained that the party in power almost always takes a beating in the midterms&comma; seemingly bracing his supporters for a looming disaster that he apparently has confided privately he has no real intention to avoid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>However&comma; when reached for comment&comma; White House spokesman Kush Desai was not &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;giving up” so easy and claimed that Americans will benefit by keeping Republicans in the majority in Congress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The message is simple&colon; if Republicans hold Congress and keep delivering on President Trump’s agenda&comma; American families will have more money in their pockets&comma; secure borders&comma; lower prescription drug prices&comma; better economic growth&comma; and energy dominance&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The American people have a clear choice&comma; doubling down on President Trump’s commonsense agenda or returning to the failures of the Biden administration&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump is expected to hit the campaign trail as many as 30 times before November&comma; according to the report&comma; with the White House hoping to use him to sway voters who might otherwise not vote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Regardless of the level of the President’s participation&comma; the sources told the WSJ that the GOP’s midterm messaging will likely focus on demonizing Democrats by highlighting Biden-era inflation&comma; higher crime&comma; and clips of mass crossings at the southern border&comma; with the goal of preventing the polls from becoming a referendum on Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In&nbsp&semi;January&comma; the White House announced that the president would scale back his international travel to focus on a domestic tour hammering down on Republican messaging&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Earlier this month&comma; Trump tried out a new message during his visit to The Villages in Florida&comma; which is home to the world’s largest retirement community&period; The president plans to make older voters a focal point since they reliably show up in midterm elections&comma; according to The Journal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump is also expected to stage a rare midterm convention in Dallas in September&comma; The Journal reported&period; The event will shine a spotlight on the Republican Party and its candidates as voters are inundated with political ads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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