Trump's Midterm-Rigging Scheme Isn't Going As Planned
In a Fox interview that aired on Wednesday, President Donald Trump effectively admitted that the ongoing Republican campaign to rig electoral maps in their favor to avert a wipeout in this year’s midterm elections has been a spectacular failure.
Speaking to his longtime booster and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Trump made a perfunctory statement that Republicans would “do good” in the election but then began speaking as if the party had already lost.
“When somebody gets elected president, that party always loses the midterms, I don’t know why. I don’t know why, nobody can explain it,” Trump said.
He further complained that he had “the greatest opening year” ever and “the greatest economy ever.” Both assertions are false. The public surely doesn’t think things have gone great, with Trump’s disapproval spiking an average of 13 percentage points since Inauguration Day to a current level of 56%. On the economy, unemployment is up after years of decline under former President Joe Biden and consumer sentiment has begun to nosedive.