As President Trump went on a winning streak in the news, his electoral standing continued to crumble. President Donald Trump has spent much of 2025 and 2026 speedrunning his predecessor’s arc in office: Like Joe Biden, he returned to power with grand ideological goals – but then high prices and a focus on issues he deemed inessential soured the American public on his leadership.
And now, like Biden, Trump has scored a series of election wins, imbuing his party with false confidence. With Biden, those wins came in the 2022 midterms, when Democrats did unexpectedly well and hushed intraparty conversations ...
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