BREAKING: THE BLAME GAME BEGINS! Trump is already pointing fingers at his own campaign team as Republicans face a potential catastrophic midterm election – even though HE personally pushed the strategies now coming under fire!
In an explosive new Reuters investigation, Trump insiders describe a furious Donald Trump demanding to know why Republicans aren't doing better in the polls, despite his political operation spending some $200 million in an attempt to keep Congress in Republican hands.
With Election Day still more than two weeks away, the finger-pointing has already begun.
Seeking to evade personal blame as always, Trump is questioning the effectiveness of his campaign spending, second-guessing candidate choices, and demanding explanations for why the aggressive redistricting campaign he personally championed hasn't delivered the advantages Republicans expected.
Texas is a particular worry. Republicans redrew congressional boundaries hoping to pick up seats, but some now fear the strategy could backfire by spreading Trump voters too thinly across districts.
Inside Trump's operation, advisers are blaming one another. One person familiar with the infighting gave Reuters a wonderfully vivid description:
“What's really happening is a circular firing squad.”
The panic stems from the fact that heads must roll if the election is a disaster. Recall that before the 2022 midterms, Trump declared that if Republicans won, he deserved “all the credit,” but if they lost, he “should not be blamed at all.
Four years later, Reuters describes a president questioning the decisions of the very political operation he helped direct, even as his aides scramble to explain the disappointing polling.
Four years later, Trump is sticking to the same philosophy. If Republicans win, he's a genius. If they lose, he'll need somebody to blame.
Evidently, his advisers are already lining up for the job.
