Donald Trump has delivered a stunning prediction about his party’s chances to maintain power in the upcoming midterm elections while fretting over discontented Republican voters.
As the midterm elections approach and Republicans in Congress hit the campaign trail, the President is concerned whether conservative voters will show up to vote this fall – especially because the name Trump is not on the ballot.
‘If I don’t run, will those people go out and vote, and that’s the one thing I can’t tell,’ Trump told Punchbowl News in an interview released Friday.
Then the President revealed his greatest open question about the coming elections and conservative voters: ‘Will they vote?’
‘A lot of them are very angry at Republicans, to be honest with you … they are not angry with me, but they are angry with Republicans.’
Republicans’ odds of keeping control of both chambers of Congress are glum, at least according to prediction markets.
As it stands, Republicans have less than a 20 percent chance of maintaining control of the House, per Kalshi data. In the Senate, Republicans’ odds of staying in power are much more favorable at 54 percent.
But the President has a trick up his sleeve to help Republicans – he has a massive political war chest that he can deploy to help his party members campaign against their Democratic opponents.