Mara Liasson

As Trump has said himself, though, midterm elections are not kind to the party in power.

He said that it's both Democrats and Republicans it affects.

And it really is a bit of pushing a boulder up the hill, especially when people have a negative view of the direction of the country.

I'm Odette Youssef.

I cover domestic extremism.

And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

Well, Odette, when they say one heritage, what heritage are they referring to?

Yeah, you know, Ward is talking about something that has a lot of political layers.

It started in the first term.

Trump famously said there were good people on both sides when he was talking about the neo-Nazi march in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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And then in the second term, it becomes official U.S.

policy, cultural erasure, you know, talking about Western civilization under siege.

It's foreign policy and domestic policy.

It's what people like J.D.

Vance or Marco Rubio tell Europeans.

They've got too many immigrants and they're going to ruin their culture.

or it's the way that they recruit for ICE.

They're not talking so much about finding criminals.

They're talking about defending the homeland from an invasion.