Republicans face a dilemma over Trump’s role in the midterms

All 435 House seats, along with 35 seats in the Senate (including special elections in Florida and Ohio), will be up for grabs in the midterm elections. President Trump’s name will not be on any of those ballots. Not a single one.

And yet just about every Democrat will be running against him.

Midterm elections are a report card on how the president is doing — and voters almost always decide the president, any president, isn’t doing a good enough job. That is why the president’s party almost always loses seats in Congress.

And as the midterms approach, this president’s report card doesn’t look very good. Most Americans give him low marks on just about everything. His approval numbers are under water on foreign policy, on healthcare, on immigration and on the economy, the single most important issue in this and most elections. And then there’s the war the president said would be over in a few weeks.

So 2026 isn’t exactly shaping up to be a banner year for the Republican Party.

But Democrats have problems of their own.

They like to say that theirs is a “big tent” party, one that welcomes candidates with all sorts of opinions and views. Fair enough. Except this year the tent has quite a few people in it whose views Americans probably won’t like — assuming Republicans are smart enough to tell voters what those views actually are.

It’s not exactly breaking news that the energy in the Democratic Party is on........

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