The Republican Party’s strategy for winning the 2026 midterm elections — and thus, potentially retaining control of Congress — is reportedly set to rely on arguing to voters that, if Democrats obtain power, they will undoubtedly attempt to impeach President Donald Trump.

The strategy is based on the belief that, after two impeachments against Trump in his first term, the American public has tired of the idea of additional impeachment proceedings against the president. Polling, however, suggests that this theory could backfire on Republicans.

Traditionally, the party of a newly elected president fares poorly in the midterms after they assume office. In 2018, for example, Republicans lost 40 seats in the House of Representatives, dealing an enormous blow to Trump’s legislative agenda and allowing Democrats to serve as a check against his power.

Trump will be directly involved in the midterm races, CNN reports, using his political capital (and his large campaign war chest) in an attempt to motivate his base of voters to turn out. Republican allies of the president are already indicating they will make a potential impeachment against him a key point of the midterms.

“It is a key priority of his, obviously, to keep the House majority, because he knows what would happen if we didn’t,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said.........

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