Susan Glasser

And I haven't heard, I might have missed it, but I haven't heard, you know, not even the old bleats of, you know, concern from, you know, the caucuses of the concerned on Capitol Hill.

And they don't even bother with that anymore.

So I think they're very unlikely to break with Trump on a major level.

foreign policy issue like the Russia sanctions, even if they were to start ebbing away on other things.

These people are going to start to get very scared for their political survival.

The ones who are in frontline districts or in competitive Senate races in 2026.

But they're going to care about things like the economy, which I could not believe.

Donald Trump's numbers on the economy are truly mind-blowingly bad right now, Tim.

You know, for a guy who

Arguably, that's what saved him from so many of the scandals and dysfunction and chaos of his first term was the perception that he was good for the economy.

Now, he's more underwater on the economy in his polls than he is on his overall approval rating.

You're absolutely right.

People do not vote on foreign policy and ask any member of Congress whether they want 2026 to be a foreign policy election.

And, you know, you know the answer to that.

A couple of thoughts.

First of all, it does underscore that Donald Trump is not on the ballot in 2026, and he tends not to care all that much about things that don't

you know, directly concern him.

And he's perfectly happy to cut loose Republican members of Congress if it doesn't fit with what he wants to do at the moment.

But it kind of underscores his impending lame duck status in that sense.

And there's a reason that second term presidents