White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has revealed that President Donald Trump will aggressively campaign for GOP candidates during the midterms, treating the elections “like it’s 2024 again.”
Traditional tracks have involved limiting Trump’s exposure for Republican candidates in contested elections in the hopes that he won’t generate a backlash turnout for Democrats. Wiles’ strategy would be a bold departure from that midterm playbook.
And it means the party will embrace a full-throttle defense of the policies and platforms that led to the President’s dominating performance in 2024 when he easily dispatched Kamala Harris, whom Democrats and a compliant media heavily promoted as the second coming of Obama.
“Typically, in the midterms, it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it,” Wiles said in an appearance on “The Mom View” podcast. “We’re actually going to turn that on its head and put him on the ballot.”
“Because so many of those low propensity voters are Trump voters,” she added, noting that some results in 2025 show “what happens when he’s not on the ballot and not active.”
“He’s going to campaign like it’s 2024 again…He’s a difference maker, and he’s certainly a turnout machine.”