The Backlash To Trump Is Here -- And It's Big [View all]
President Donald Trump tried to stay out of the 2025 elections, the first major ones since he took office for a second time. He did not hold any of his famous rallies in any of the contested states. He did not even endorse the GOP candidate for governor in Virginia. He directly intervened in the New York City mayor’s race, but only the night before Election Day.
Still, it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that Trump is one of the major losers of Tuesday night’s contests. His preferred candidates in big races uniformly lost. The young and Latino voters he added to the GOP coalition in 2024 were either voting for Democrats or staying home. And all signs point toward Democrats having an incredibly strong chance to win a House majority in 2026, a result the president is already working desperately to stop.
Trump himself is obviously not accepting such a conclusion: “‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,” he wrote on his Truth Social page shortly after 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Which pollsters? Unclear.
“Donald Trump is a historic president,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the primary force behind a redistricting measure his state overwhelmingly approved and which dealt a direct blow to GOP chances of holding the House. “He is the most historically unpopular president in modern history.”
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