John McCormick
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WSJ What’s News · Anti-Trump Sentiment vs. Policy: The Battle for the Midterms · 19 Apr 2026
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And so we have to keep in mind these this 2026 midterm is obviously important for control of the Senate and the House and governorships and all those other things.
But it's also sort of the warm up act for these 2028 candidates.
Yeah, now both Eliza and I have been talking to Republican elected officials and party officials in recent days.
And yeah, there is definite anxiety out there.
The longer the war drags on, the longer gas prices stay high, this environment is just going to continue to be very, very challenging.
So there's sort of this soul searching going on in the Republican Party.
They can't look too panicked because that's not a good look either to voters.
And so they're trying to sort of stress that, hey, we still have some time.
If things get better in Iran, if, you know, the president is able to accomplish some of the goals that he has for this war, if gasoline prices come down, who knows how things look in September, October, November.
But there's plenty of worry within the GOP that like the House may already be gone for Republicans.
Well, not in primaries.
There are a few examples out there where there are some select candidates who have been critical of the president, have broken with him.
But by and large, as these candidates look at their primaries, they have to embrace the president.
But in some of these places where candidates are competing in battleground states, a place like Michigan, Ohio, Iowa,
Some of these candidates are going to have to be a little bit more nuanced after they win their primaries and maybe distance themselves a little bit from the president.
And as we talk about sort of the Republican angst and stress here, they do have one thing going for them, and that's money.
The power of incumbency really does help fundraising.
How much the president will spend on people other than himself sort of remains to be seen, but presumably he's going to spend some of that money on candidates that he backs in the midterms.
Some individual Democratic candidates have had great success raising money individually, but the party committees have struggled because the party that's in power in Washington tends to have a much easier path to fundraising.
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