Trump recycles ‘Dumocrats’ attacks at Kentucky rally but is privately ‘blaming aides’ for gloomy midterms outlook

President Donald Trump used a Saturday rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky, to project confidence about the midterm elections, even as Reuters reports he has been faulting his own staff in private over a shaky outlook for Republicans. Several polls point to heavy GOP losses in November, with voters unhappy about living costs and the war in Iran, and Fox News this week said for the first time that the House looks likely to flip to Democrats, according to The Independent.

During a speech of about 90 minutes, Trump called Democrats lunatics and communists, and mocked Texas Senate candidate James Talarico as "Talafreako." He labeled Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed a jihadist, accused Joe Biden of weaponizing the government, and boasted of record incomes and a record-low poverty rate. He also said no president has campaigned so hard for a midterm and expects little credit if Republicans win.

Reuters, citing sources, says Trump has questioned how James Blair, who runs the PAC MAGA Inc., has spent money without lifting polls. Some officials reportedly doubt Chief of Staff Susie Wiles's management of the strategy. A White House spokesperson dismissed the sources as armchair experts, and Trump publicly voiced full confidence in Wiles.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →