Trump starts blame game ahead of midterm elections
President Donald Trump has locked on to a new excuse for the GOP’s impending 2026 midterm losses: It’s the messaging, not the results.
“We’re doing an extremely poor job of promotion and an extremely great job of running the country,” he said Wednesday at the White House.
CNN’s Abby Phillip discusses the different ways Trump has recently framed the Republican party’s struggles ahead of the midterm elections with her Table of Five political pundits.
0:00 How has Trump explained Republican headwinds during the midterm election season?
1:41 Are GOP candidates acknowledging Trump’s polling unpopularity on the campaign trail?
4:54 Republican senator warns that the 2026 election could mirror the results in 2006
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