Six Months from the Midterms

Playbook: “Six months from today, America will wake up to a new political reality. Nov. 4 — the morning after the midterms — is the moment Democrats expect the next phase of retaliation against Trump 2.0 … and the moment optimistic Republicans, at least, believe the president and his allies in Congress will be newly empowered to finish the job.”

“Right now, the mood among rank-and-file Republicans is desperate…”

“Today also marks six months on from the disastrous off-year elections that laid bare the scale of Republicans’ plight. Since then, the dominant storylines have been ICE chaos in Minnesota, a partial government shutdown, and the war in Iran. You’ll struggle to find a GOP strategist who would’ve picked that as a defensible position…”

“There’s still no sign of the president showing the message discipline that Republicans need from their most powerful megaphone.”