2026 midterms Archives

Dems Have 11-Point Lead on Generic Ballot

July 23, 2026 Buck Banks

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A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.

Is This Election Rigging?

July 23, 2026 Buck Banks

A new round of Trumpian tariffs are making the news,
And Republicans are singing those “lost Midterm Blues.”
Gas prices are high and affordability’s low,
And there’s something both parties want to know:
Is Trump deliberately trying to make the GOP lose?

Kicking EAC’s Ass

July 10, 2026 Buck Banks

Donald Trump is determined to influence the 2026 midterm election,
And the subservient conservative Supreme Court gave him permission.
Trump fired the Democrats on the EAC,
And how that effects the midterms, we’ll see,
But the mob boss likely will get his way — through subversion and coercion.

Trump Is Reviving the ‘Red Menace’ Ahead of the Midterms

July 9, 2026 Buck Banks

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A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

Trump’s Midterm Comeuppance Is Coming

June 17, 2026 Buck Banks

“Trump has no earthly idea of what’s coming for him. They’re not telling him. The vote against him in November is gonna be like, breathtaking.”

— James Carville, quoted by Mediaite.

Trump Holds $550 Million Ahead of Midterms

April 21, 2026 Buck Banks

$550 million

“President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment,” Bloomberg reports.

Trump Is Underwater in 134 Republican-Held Districts

April 8, 2026April 13, 2026 Buck Banks

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G. Elliot Morris: “New estimates I’ve produced show that Trump’s approval rating is below 50% among registered voters in 135 Republican-held congressional seats — 104 in the House and 31 in the Senate. … And his approval is below 45% in jurisdictions represented by 44 Republican members of Congress — 34 in the House and 10 in the Senate.”

Voters Are Abandoning the Republican Party in Droves

April 7, 2026 Buck Banks

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A new survey finds that approximately 20% of 2024 Trump voters may not vote Republican in 2028, and that almost 57% of voters who switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 are considering abandoning the Republican party in 2028.

Inklings of a Blue Wave Take Shape

March 25, 2026 Buck Banks

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Chris Cillizza points out that Democrats have now flipped 30 Republican state legislative seats since Donald Trump began his second term. Republicans have flipped none. “30-0 isn’t just noise. It’s a signal. There’s something building out in the country folks. How big it will be and whether it lasts all the way until November remains to be seen. But it’s building.”

Creating a ‘Toxic Problem’ for the Midterms

March 9, 2026 Buck Banks

“If you combine an economy that people don’t like with a prolonged war that you know nobody in his base believes they voted for, that’s a toxic problem.”

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Dems Have 11-Point Lead on Generic Ballot

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Is This Election Rigging?

Kicking EAC’s Ass

Trump Is Reviving the ‘Red Menace’ Ahead of the Midterms

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

Trump’s Midterm Comeuppance Is Coming

“Trump has no earthly idea of what’s coming for him. They’re not telling him. The vote against him in November is gonna be like, breathtaking.”

— James Carville, quoted by Mediaite.

Trump Holds $550 Million Ahead of Midterms

$550 million

“President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment,” Bloomberg reports.

Trump Is Underwater in 134 Republican-Held Districts

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Voters Are Abandoning the Republican Party in Droves

57%

A new survey finds that approximately 20% of 2024 Trump voters may not vote Republican in 2028, and that almost 57% of voters who switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024 are considering abandoning the Republican party in 2028.

Inklings of a Blue Wave Take Shape

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Creating a ‘Toxic Problem’ for the Midterms

“If you combine an economy that people don’t like with a prolonged war that you know nobody in his base believes they voted for, that’s a toxic problem.”

— A Trump ally, quoted by Politico.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%