Political analyst and former Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina this morning on MSNBC, talking about Dems' improving prospects for the 2026 mid-term elections:
"You look at the 'big, beautiful bill' and it is a polling nightmare. It is one of the most unpopular things I have ever seen – 79 percent of Americans don't want any cuts to Medicaid, and yet you just had $1 trillion cuts to Medicaid, and where does that money go to? It goes to tax breaks for the ultra-rich who don't need it.
So when you look at that, when you look at since Donald Trump came to office, in special elections across this country, Democrats are overperforming by over 10 points in these elections, and it's really for two reasons. The first reason is a very fired up Democratic base, and the second reason, and why the Epstein thing means so much, is decreased Republican enthusiasm.
That combination is how you get wave elections, and it's how you get seats like [the] Texas Senate race suddenly coming onto the to the screen that usually aren't available for Democrats. So you're starting to see real districts all over the place." (our emphasis)
Once again, it's a year and four months until the mid-terms, and with the master con man in the White House, anything can happen. But popular opinion seems to be going in the Dems' direction, if they only don't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Everyone keeps talking midterms. the only midterms we'll have are the ones where seats are held by Democrats. Trump will appoint a Republican (someone who pays enough for the seat) by executive order.
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