MARK HALPERIN: Trump strategy super session plots midterm survival as history stalks GOP
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Trump's senior political team gathered at Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday night to strategize for the 2026 midterms
The battlefield, at least for now, is defined. There are 36 targeted House races and seven key Senate races that will determine the balance of power. Political analyst and best-selling author Mark Halperin is Editor-in-Chief of the new interactive live video platform 2WAY.
Midterms are almost always brutal for a president’s party. Since World War II, the president’s party has lost House seats in all but a handful of elections. The average loss is measured not in single digits but in dozens. The modern political era is replete with examples: 1994 for Bill Clinton, 2010 for Barack Obama, 2018 for Donald Trump himself. The gravitational pull of backlash is real.
Which is why Tuesday night’s meeting mattered.
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