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President Trump doesn’t seem to care that much about winning the midterms. He’s more unpopular at this point in his second term than basically any of his modern predecessors. Democrats seem poised to retake the House and have a real chance of retaking the Senate. You might expect a president in that position to pivot to the center, to focus on voters’ top concerns and try to boost the strongest Republicans in key races. Trump isn’t doing any of that.
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What Trump would mind, what he does fear, is a Republican Party with a spine. He fears a Republican Party where members of Congress begin to participate in the investigations of his scandals, where they abandon him as his fortunes fall.
“you need to find something that appeals to your voters and that does not get stuck trying to solve the problems of the 80s and 90s, because that seems to be the tendency.”
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