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This is the end for him...

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This is the end for him...

Donald Trump is actively campaigning in deeply red states like Texas, Alaska, Iowa, and Florida, where Republican Senate races are now competitive, revealing a significant crisis within the Republican Party. These moves signal a defensive strategy as the party faces declining approval ratings—Trump’s now at 37%, the lowest for any president entering a midterm—despite claims of strength. Polls show Democrats gaining ground in key states, with candidates like James Tallyrico in Texas and Mary Peltola in Alaska leading incumbents. Inside the White House, officials acknowledge the dire political climate, yet Trump dismisses warnings, continuing to post over 26 campaign ads in 24 hours, including controversial and misleading content. The Pentagon’s campaign urging military service members to vote adds irony, given Trump’s past attempts to undermine the 2020 election. Democrats are preparing sweeping investigations into Trump’s administration, including corruption and the Epstein files, highlighting a growing political reckoning. The Republican response—focused on emotional rallies in safe states rather than addressing actual vulnerabilities—suggests a party in denial about its declining ground. This defensive posture, combined with public distrust and inconsistent messaging, underscores a fundamental crisis in Republican credibility and electoral prospects ahead of the midterms.

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This right here on your screen right now is the clearest sign yet that Donald Trump and the Republicans are in full blown panic mode. They would have never expected to be in this position and yet Donald Trump is now being forced to rush to deep red states as MAGA knows dives. Donald Trump is having to go to red states that normally Republicans would do very well in because their numbers are slipping. Trump, the man who has the biggest ego is now kind of admitting that yeah, the Republican party is in trouble. He's not going to Pennsylvania, he's not going to Michigan, he's not going in these swing states, he's going to deep red states. I want to break down this story for you because we just got a lot about this and I want to talk about all of it. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about this story, and also I just turned 24 years old today. I'm 24, the only thing I ask of you is of course to support the show, but also check your registration, get out there to vote this November. That's all I ask. Let's get into the story here though. Donald Trump seems to be playing defense with his choice of midterm campaign stops in the coming weeks. He'll soon travel to states where Republicans are suddenly having to defend Senate seats. Next month, the 80-year-old president will travel to four states where Republicans are supposed to be safe but are suddenly facing competitive Senate races. You have Texas with James Tallarica who's doing very well. Alaska, Mary Peltola is doing very well. Iowa and Florida. Florida has Angie Nixon of course, Rob Sand and Iowa, couple of great candidates there as well. I mean, these are states that Donald Trump has won all three times. Every time he's been on the ballot, he is won. Now he's having to go to those states to campaign for their Senate candidates and all these states have Trump endorsed candidates. I think of Texas, for example, with Ken Paxton. Everybody in the Republican Party was saying Donald endorsed John Kornin, the current incumbent who has been very successful in Texas. Why would you not endorse this guy? He has a better chance of victory. Donald Trump says no, we're gonna go with Ken Paxton. We're gonna go with this guy who's been impeached by his own party, a criminal and alleged criminal. We're gonna go with that guy. And now he's having to go to Texas to defend that Senate seat because the numbers are that bad. And that's just not a good sign. They're having to pour money into red states. In Texas, where a Democrat has in one state wide in three decades, James Tylerrico leads attorney general Ken Paxton 50% to 44%. A six point lead in Texas. That's how you know things are bad. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola leads incumbent Dan Sullivan by four and five points according to two polls released two weeks ago. Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turrick, who has Barack Obama's coveted endorsement, leads Ashley Henson by eight points in a Maris poll conducted last week. I mean, look at these numbers. In Texas, you just couldn't imagine it, you know. In Florida, Trump's home state polls have favored the GOP who's Senate and gubernatorial candidates held double digit leads in the Stetson University Survey this week. Next Trump, next week, excuse me, Trump will make a very different kind of stop in deep red states that have not been a focus of Republicans' efforts to maintain their slim majorities in Congress. He will appear in Oklahoma next Thursday, the Republican National Committee announced. The next day, he will stop in mobile Alabama. Alabama, he's campaigning in Alabama. The Trump 47 committee, the president's joint fundraiser with the RNC, is hosting each event. And this is the current balance of power in the Senate. Democrats only need to pick up a couple of seats, three seats, four seats, maybe if we want to get control of the Senate. And that is not out of reach looking at the current map and the numbers. And of course, the House's representatives were looking better in. Each state widely backed by Trump in the last, or excuse me, each state widely backed Trump in the last three presidential elections, meaning the president is sure to revel in past victories. I'm sure he's going to get up on stage and say, "Well, I won this state by so much, I'm so great, everybody loves me. It's not the truth." But the utility of stopping there ahead of the midterms is questionable given how few, if any, races of importance are competitive. Those stops more look like emotional support rallies than attempts to shore up vulnerable Republican candidates. Each state's Senate contest is rated solid Republican. So are the gubernatorial races of the combined 12 House Contests in both states. Ten are considered solid Republican. And that goes to show you just how bad of a spot the Republicans are in. And it's not just this point that Donald Trump is having to stop in deep red states. It's also what we learned in this brand new, pretty groundbreaking Wall Street Journal article that came out yesterday, including some new polling. Trump is predicting midterm success, but Republicans are starting to panic. Here's why. Here's what this article says. Number one, Donald Trump's approval rating is at 60, excuse me, 37%. His disapproval rating is at 61%. It's the lowest of his second term. It's the lowest for a president going into the midterms for a while, which we'll talk about in just a second. But look at this development over time. Going from 52% to when Donald Trump was first elected in and around that time, where when he was first announcing his campaign and running for office, then he got elected and now he's at 37%. Went from 52% approval to 37% approval in not that long of a time. And Donald Trump historically isn't such a bad position. Going back to president's George H. W. Bush onward to Donald Trump, he has the lowest approval rating in recent history going into a midterm election. Lowest approval rating for a president going into a midterm election. That includes George W. Bush. That includes Bush senior. That includes Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden. Donald Trump is lower than all of these different presidents. And an interesting part of this article that inside the White House, the mood has been grim. Some Trump allies have tried to convey to the president how bad the midterm environment is for Republicans, but Trump has at times cut off those conversations, which is kind of in line with what he said publicly. Like, you know, the Republicans are doing great. We're going to win. Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Jell-to-miss technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all-day-gum-vy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Maybelline, New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. So well, and everybody loves us, which in order to believe that you'd have to be living in a bubble, you'd have to be completely delusional about how Americans feel, which kind of seems like that might be the case with Donald Trump. And part of the reason that he's going to these deep-red states to campaign, like Alabama, Texas, Alaska, where now they're having to play a lot of defense, is because he understands what's going to come next. When, hopefully, knock on wood here, Democrats win the midterms. It's going to be a lot of investigations, right? We so, because we need answers. We need answers on the crimes. We need answers on the corruption. Donald Trump, for the past couple of years, has been acting with impunity. That he could just do anything he wants, and nobody's going to ask any questions. We have questions. The American people have questions, and he's nervous about that. Because Democrats are planning some vast oversight of the Trump administration. Of course, impeachment is an option. Some of the top investigation topics we're looking into, the Democratic Party, and Congress is looking into are the Epstein files, are the corruption. Those are like the main ones we're thinking about right now, which is a good start, a good approach when you're thinking about this administration. There got to be subpoenas and House hearings day one. I want Donald Trump Jr., the Trump family subpoena day one. I want them in a committee under oath answering some questions. You know that Donald Trump is panicked because you can just look at his social media feed. He's nervous about this. He's nervous about losing. Look at his social media feed. In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has posted over 26 campaign ads, 26 in 24 hours. That's more than an ad an hour from Donald Trump. Here are some examples. You have this one. I'm not going to play them for you because quite frankly, I would rather do anything else than watch Trump campaign ads. It's just made personally. Here's one. Here's another of him in Melania going all the way back to Trump 1.0, his first term. Here's another. Never give up. A campaign ad of Donald Trump. Here's more. I mean, there's just so many different campaign ads that he's been posting online. It's very, very weird. Who is making these ads? Who is telling him to post these online? Of course, he also had that recent scandal where he ran this ad. It's like his new anti-communist ad where he says, we will never be a communist country and then at the bottom of the ad at one point, you can see it says, paid for by the US government, right behind that line, paid for by the US government. So our tax dollars paid for that. You and me, we paid for Donald Trump to run this campaign ad on Fox News, which is illegal in like a million different ways. But that's what Donald Trump is doing, using our money to campaign, which I think is a specially gross. And it's gotten so bad that not only is Donald Trump campaigning in red states, not only is he posting campaign ads like every hour on social media. But now the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, is campaigning for Republicans. They just released this new video. He delivered the thinly veiled campaign message to US service members, ordering them to vote in the midterms to overwhelm blue cities like Milwaukee and Detroit, saying, keep our nation the land of the free. We're coming from this secretary of the Department of Defense 300,000. That's how many of our warriors were not registered to vote, according to studies of the 2024 election. That's more than the ballots cast in cities like Detroit, Boston, Milwaukee or Seattle. As you know, the war department exists to protect our nation and her freedoms. That includes the freedom to decide who leads us and the right to vote. That's why General George Washington crossed the Delaware River 250 years ago for our right to determine our own American destiny. Regardless of your home state or current duty status, you can use a standardized federal postcard to register and request a ballot. And if you're forward deployed and your standard ballot is delayed, you can use the federal right in absentee ballot. All of these processes are straightforward and protected by law. that he's like, you know, you should be able to choose your elected official, which I completely agree with. But shouldn't he be saying that to Donald Trump, the guy who tried to overturn the 2020 election? I mean, that feels like, you know, kind of contradictory to this message of, you should be able to choose your elected officials and you should do that, which I agree with. That's great. You should be able to choose your elected officials. Why don't you go tell your boss that, Numb Nuts. You know, these guys are weirdos, man, but they're in a bad spot and they know it. The numbers show it, their actions show it, your social media posts show it, their weird campaign ads filled, filmed in the Pentagon or the Department of Defense show it. It's very weird. So look, I will leave the video there. I just wanted to talk about all this with you folks. You can let me know in the comments what you think. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment. Let me know what you think about the story, everything we just went over. Have an amazing rest of your day. Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York. Delta Miss technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. Try new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York. Maybe it's Mabelie, and we will talk soon.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Donald Trump is campaigning in deeply red states like Texas, Alaska, Iowa, and Florida despite Republican Senate races being unexpectedly competitive, signaling a lack of confidence in the party’s prospects.
  2. Key Republican Senate candidates are losing ground—such as Ken Paxton in Texas, Dan Sullivan in Alaska, and Josh Turrick in Iowa—showing a significant shift in voter sentiment.
  3. Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 37%, the lowest of any U.S. president going into a midterm election, with a disapproval rating of 61%, reflecting public skepticism.
  4. Inside the White House, there is growing concern about the Republican Party’s performance, though Trump dismisses these warnings, claiming Republicans are doing well.
  5. Trump has posted over 26 campaign ads in 24 hours, including controversial and misleading ones, such as an anti-communist ad falsely claiming U.S. tax dollars paid for it.
  6. The Pentagon, under Pete Hegseth, is running a campaign promoting military voter registration, creating an ironic and contradictory message given Trump’s history of undermining democratic processes.
  7. Democrats are preparing major investigations into Trump’s administration, including the Epstein files and alleged corruption, indicating a serious political reckoning.
  8. The Republican strategy appears defensive and emotional, with campaign stops in safe states more about appearances than addressing real vulnerabilities.

Summary:

Donald Trump is actively campaigning in deeply red states like Texas, Alaska, Iowa, and Florida, where Republican Senate races are now competitive, revealing a significant crisis within the Republican Party. These moves signal a defensive strategy as the party faces declining approval ratings—Trump’s now at 37%, the lowest for any president entering a midterm—despite claims of strength. Polls show Democrats gaining ground in key states, with candidates like James Tallyrico in Texas and Mary Peltola in Alaska leading incumbents.

Inside the White House, officials acknowledge the dire political climate, yet Trump dismisses warnings, continuing to post over 26 campaign ads in 24 hours, including controversial and misleading content. The Pentagon’s campaign urging military service members to vote adds irony, given Trump’s past attempts to undermine the 2020 election. Democrats are preparing sweeping investigations into Trump’s administration, including corruption and the Epstein files, highlighting a growing political reckoning.

The Republican response—focused on emotional rallies in safe states rather than addressing actual vulnerabilities—suggests a party in denial about its declining ground. This defensive posture, combined with public distrust and inconsistent messaging, underscores a fundamental crisis in Republican credibility and electoral prospects ahead of the midterms.

FAQs

Trump is campaigning in deep red states to support Republican Senate candidates who are now facing competitive races, signaling a shift as Republican numbers are slipping in traditionally safe states.

He is campaigning for Senate seats in Texas, Alaska, Iowa, and Florida, where Republican incumbents like Ken Paxton, Dan Sullivan, and Ashley Henson are facing competitive challenges.

Trump's approval rating has dropped to 37%, the lowest for any president going into a midterm election, suggesting public skepticism and potential Republican vulnerability in the upcoming midterms.

Republicans are in panic mode due to declining polling numbers, strong Democratic performances in key races, and internal concerns about possible investigations into the Trump administration's actions.

In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has posted over 26 campaign ads, more than one per hour, indicating high levels of activity and possible anxiety about the upcoming midterms.

Yes, a recent ad claimed to be 'paid for by the US government' is illegal, as it misrepresents the funding source and uses taxpayer money in a campaign effort, which violates campaign finance rules.

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