Donald Trump And Republicans Are Falling Into A Trap

The president's victories in primaries and crucial court cases come as his poll numbers continue to slip into dangerous territory ahead of the midterms.

Senior Political Reporter, HuffPost

President Donald Trump has spent much of 2025 and 2026 speedrunning his predecessor’s arc in office: Like Joe Biden, he returned to power with grand ideological goals – but then high prices and a focus on issues he deemed inessential soured the American public on his leadership.

And now, like Biden, Trump has scored a series of election wins, imbuing his party with false confidence. With Biden, those wins came in the 2022 midterms, when Democrats did unexpectedly well and hushed intraparty conversations about whether he should run for re-election. Biden ultimately dropped out far too late, and the Democrats were doomed in 2024.

Trump’s successes in the courtroom and Republican primaries over the past month are having a similar effect, seemingly convincing a party staring at potential doom in November that there is little reason to change course or break with a president whose popularity continues to steadily decline amid a........

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