Republicans Blame Trump for Losses and Turn on White House!

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They once thought that they could have had historic wins even. Because of the war in Iran, affordability crisis, and more, they're saying those wins are turning into losses. I spoke with one congressman today. His name is Ami Barra from California. He's not running in necessarily that competitive of a district. But he told me that he spoke with Republicans colleagues behind the scenes and they all say the same thing. It's the president's fault. You got to listen to this. Make sure to subscribe. We're on the road to a million subscribers. Support this work. Like comment share. We are literally working around the clock between now, not just tomorrow night election night, but through the rest of the week until we have final results. And then we're putting out road maps for how a future congress could investigate the president. So let's talk about how Republicans are now already privately blaming Donald Trump as they brace for losses tomorrow night. Political has reported that even as they race to distance themselves from his actions on tariff, the unpopular Iran war and his mass deportation agenda, few have been willing to criticize him publicly. A clear sign of just how powerful Trump grip, Trump's grip remains on the GOP. But interviews behind the scenes reflect that they are acutely aware of who put them on the back foot. There was a point earlier this year where we felt like we could defy history said one house Republican. And then Trump bombed Iran. And it was just one thing after another. Republicans are tired or trailing in polls and numerous critical battlegrounds and expecting to lose someone's secured red seats. Trump's unfocused closing message, including repeated comments about the ass of John Houston. As further frustrated and already on edge party, quote, "I think John Houston's ass and Nicki Minaj is as great as a closing message." Saying sarcastically, "You guys take the good with the bad with Trump unless you want to drive yourself crazy every day." People are going to go up to the president. The buck stops with him. His approvals aren't great. And some Republicans are even harsher behind the scenes. Quote, "At least one Barack Obama was president. He only screwed his enemies, never his friends." That's what a house Republican currently in office said. 108 House official says that the blame game is an ass-9 adventure. Saying Trump has obviously left it all out on the field. But the bottom is on the verge of falling out for Republicans right now. And even Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former senior adviser, saying, "Republicans are on the verge of a possible civil war if that bottom falls out." See, Bannon is warning that after the midterm elections, quote, "monster legislative battles can occur between now and January." And also internally, as Republicans jockey for the future for 2028, an internal civil war would erupt. And it's being corroborated by folks right now inside the White House. Here's what Paula Reed MSNOW's new White House correspondent had to say about this. So, I've been speaking to sources. Inside the administration, outside advisors, folks who were down in Marlago this past weekend and across the board. There is a sense that absolutely we're going to face losses. Some advisors even tell me, well, maybe we deserve this, based on the policies we have and have not put forth. But what's interesting, despite everything at stake for the president, for his allies, especially for his family, when it comes to democratic oversight, there doesn't seem to be a big focus on turning out that last handful of voters in Michigan or in Texas. Instead, the people I talk to, they're focused on themselves and their next move. Now, while most administrations see a lot of people exit at the midterm, here we do expect to see a lot of high-profile departures. And that- High-profile departures are coming. The closing message from some in Trump's family are going as well as this from Don Jr. They want to pack the Supreme Court, they want to make Ohio a state, make DC a state, have permanent one-party rule. Oh, oh, apparently, I don't know how it works, Ohio, by the way, is currently a state. An activist like Scott Pressler on the ground in Pennsylvania say, I know we didn't do enough. But please, give us two more years. I have a message to the American people. I realize that we haven't accomplished everything within two years. That's why we're out here asking for another two. Make President Trump a four-year president. Make sure that the job that we gave him in 2024, he can accomplish and use all four years to get it done. That means controlling the House of Representatives. That means keeping the United States Senate and here in Pennsylvania. We'll see if that closing message resonates. I spoke with Congressman Amibera, who says he doesn't think it will. Make sure to subscribe, like, comment, share. Click word from our sponsor. Have I told you how much I love my new mattress? Well, if I haven't, I've literally told everyone around me, including my friends, including my loved ones, my wife. We love our new mattress. We've got it from Lisa mattress, which is why I'm excited to share with you that Lisa mattress is sponsoring this video. Lisa has a lineup of beautifully crafted mattresses tailored to how you sleep. Each mattress is designed with specific sleep positions and fuel preferences in mind, and from night one, you will feel the difference. I felt the difference. There are premium materials that deliver serious comfort and full body support no matter how you sleep. It's super easy. 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I feel pretty optimistic about the house. I think we could pick up anywhere from 15 to 20 seats. If we have a great night, it may go beyond that. Then the Senate looks like it's very much in play. Let me talk to you about California because this is a state that Democrats really fought back in. Governor Newsom threw a prop 50. You guys kind of redistricted to that mid-cycle redistricting. How are things looking in some of those swing districts right now that a lot of folks are talking about? Yeah. So in the districts that we redistribed, one of those was mine. We split my district in half. I think we're going to go for now. USC did some polling last week. All of our folks were up, Richard Pan should be Kevin Kylie, Randy Vegas is over 50% beating David Valedale. And then further south, we should pick up the ICC. I think we're going to have a good night. That's pretty big. What are your priorities when Democrats take over the House of Representatives? What does January look like? Yeah. So obviously, there's a long way to go. We anticipate President Trump could do some shenanigans on November 4th, and shortly thereafter, we'll try to contest the election. But let's say January 3rd, the new House comes in. Hakim Jeffries is a likely speaker. I think there's going to be tremendous pressure for us to expose the corruption, but that's not all we can do. So I've suggested to Speaker Jeffries, or soon to be Speaker Jeffries, that we set up a select committee on corruption in government. Put our bulldogs there, let them go to work, exposing what's been going on in the first years of the Trump administration. But then we ran on affordability. So we've got to put out an agenda ideas that hopefully can pass and get some Republican votes, pass the Senate, get to the President's desk to address affordability. But, you know, after that, it really is going to be the 2028 presidential race, which is starting an earnest. You talk about the shenanigans that Trump may try on November 4th. One of my biggest fears personally is California. The House of Representatives comes down to California. We're counting ballots in California for potentially a week, two weeks after Election Day. And he starts to try to play games saying, well, nothing that's being counted after Election Day even matters. We're going to go and seize the ballots. We're going to do all these things. Go to the courts. Can you talk a little bit about how California works when it comes to elections? Yeah. So we've really pushed, I'm surely wherever the Secretary of State to speed up the counting. You know, what happens here in my home county, Sacramento County, is they'll count all the ballots that come in by mail up until the closer business on Friday, after which they spend the weekend getting ready for Election Day, you know, making sure everything's in in place at the ballot places. So then those ballots that come in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, don't get counted, they get set aside. And then on Election Day, they count the ballots that are coming in and are cast on Election Day. So there's still tens of thousands of ballots that'll come in over the weekend, throughout the state of California. I would urge them to keep counting over the weekend. Again, I'm hopeful they changed their policies, but you'll see hundreds of thousands of ballots across the state still that are coming in. We take them as long as they're postmarked by Election Day. And again, there's very little voter fraud. It is just that we want every legal voter to be able to vote. - Is it normal, say for example, maybe there is a Republican up on Election Night and then those ballots start being counted and then over the next several days, that tally flips. That's normal, right? You know, that's the way it used to be that Republicans would be early voters, Democrats would be Election Day voters. Donald Trump's really flipped that upside down. So it's now Democrats that are voting very early and Republicans have become Election Day voters. You know, if I look at the ballots in my district, Democrats are voting in record numbers in the early vote. So you're seeing that all across the country. I was looking at some numbers from Texas, the early votes through the roof right now. So I think it would be a good night for Democrats, Democratic enthusiasm is pretty high. - Something that I've seen over the past couple of days, especially over the past several hours is that internally Republicans are starting to do this blame game and potentially even throw some blame on the president for expected losses. Are you hearing that behind the scenes? - I am. So I think for a while now Republicans have shown a lot of angst about President Trump's illegal war and around. This is the war that he started that he's continued. I think a lot of the Republicans members of Congress are hearing back home of how upset their constituents are. They're reminded, obviously every time they fill up their gas tank, they're reminded of this war and they're really unhappy about it. And I think that's why President Trump's numbers are so underwater. I do think you'll see President Trump shoulder the burden of the blame. He'll never accept that, right? He can't, that's not an as makeup. But I do think you'll start to see the finger pointing from Republican members if they have a bad night. - Do you think that they'll finally come out maybe publicly and start pointing these fingers because there's a lot of private finger pointing that's been happening over the past 18 months and over the first four years of the Trump administration, but it's very rare unless they either are no longer in office or are lame ducks themselves that they do come out and go against the president. - You know, it's my hope that they start pushing back. President Trump will be a lame duck starting November 4th. And certainly January 3rd when the new Congress comes in. I would hope it starts with doing everything we can to end this war in Iran. I know many Republicans think this was a disastrous idea and want to figure out how do we get to a cease fire. I mean, we do hear the reports of President Trump saying he's gonna start attacking Iran again immediately after the midterms. I think that is a bad idea. And I would hope that we get Republicans to stand with us. I also anticipate one of the first votes will take back when we get back in Washington DC is a vote to impeach, Pete Hegseth. That's being led by a Republican, Thomas Massey from Kentucky. I think most Democrats are gonna support impeaching Hegseth. We'll see if the Republicans come along with us. - Would you support impeaching Hegseth? - I mean, I think he's been a disastrous Secretary of Defense. I think many of the actions he's taken have been illegal actions. And I wish we had a bunch of hearings and we exposed everything that Ben led to the impeachment vote, but Thomas Massey's pushing that impeachment vote, I think Hegseth got to go. - Looking ahead to 2028, which is generally the future of the Democratic Party, I think this election tomorrow is really a referendum on Trump, not necessarily a sign that Democrats are overly popular nationwide, because polling shows that Democrats are on popular, Trump is just more on popular in this moment. How do you get the party back on track? - Yeah, so they're calling it the red undertow. It's not the blue way, but it's the red undertow. Trump's pulling a lot of Republicans down. I think we have to have an affirmative agenda. It's not that we have to actually tell folks how we're gonna make their lives better. Now, it is gonna be difficult. Trump will still be in office, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't put forth ideas to make healthcare more affordable. We shouldn't push back on Trump's tariffs, which foreign countries are not paying for those tariffs corporations aren't. It's every day Americans that are children, the burden of those costs. So, I think we have to move that legislation forward, try to get Republicans to vote with us. You know, roll back the Medicaid cuts. You know, millions of Americans are gonna lose healthcare coverage starting January. First, we should try to roll that back. That's gonna hurt a lot of Republicans. So, I think the public's gotta see what we're doing. And if we can send thanks to the President's desk, you know, he'll either sign them or he won't. - Congresswoman, I appreciate the time. - Great, thank you. Have a great day, Art. - Hey folks, thanks so much for watching. Feel free to add this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you watch, or the latest breaking news and daily hits. Throughout the day, make sure to follow, subscribe. See you soon for more.