- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
Ted Cruz warned Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, that he would face a “bloodbath” in the November midterm elections if prices continued to rise, prompting the president to respond, “fuck you, Ted,” the US senator told donors, according to a secret recording of the private conversation obtained by Axios.
Cruz reportedly delivered the reality check to the president in a phone conversation after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs a few months after returning to the Oval Office in early 2025. The president was unhappy, Cruz said – and yelled and cursed in a conversation with Republican senators.
“Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath,” Cruz said he told the president, according to Axios. “You’re going to lose the House, you’re going to lose the Senate, you’re going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week.”
Only 34% approve of how Trump has handled the cost of living while 64% disapprove, according to a recent New York Times/Siena poll. There is also evidence the economy may be motivating those who voted for Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of him, according to the Times.
Trump is losing the narrative. He spent so much time talking about Biden and Obama policies and how he was going to fix them, and then when he implemented his fixes and they didn’t work, he just doubled down that they did because back then, his sycophants just believed anything he said. Now that everyone can see him for what he is, he can’t hide behind the lies anymore. Even my parents, who were staunch supporters of his during both elections, have gone quiet. Couple that with the current state of ICE, his threats to Canada and Greenland (and Iceland by idiot-proxy), and the glossing of the Epstein files, there is a lot of ammo against the Republicans going into Midterms. Its no wonder he keeps pawing around the idea of skipping them entirely. He’s running out of time before falling over the cliff. Trump got away with what he did because he was a useful idiot. However, they overfed the beast and he got fat. Now he’s gotten too large and is blocking the progress that the GOP thought it was going to make. How long before they stuff his bloated political corpse full of dynamite and blow him off the beach?
Add to that prez is losing his mind, such as it was. He lost what little internal screen he had, falls asleep at national televised meetings, and is being led by the project 2025 people in the party that got him to betray his america 1st, (as if there was any doubt to us,) and his populist rhetoric stops where the plutocracy starts, as the party keeps him occupied to not upset interests that would help his popularity.
Look at mamdami, or petro of colombia, enemies of the party, they left him alone with each for 20 minutes and he is best pals with them, as his handlers face palm and distract him elsewhere, look at that shiny trophy!
Obviously gerrymanders give them advantage but they are getting too greedy, not leaving enough margin, which is how they lost 2018. But they do plan on cheating every way they can. Of dishonoring results. And the opposition is chosen to be weak and responds to r fake populism by copying them instead of their own popular rhetoric. Sold out and we all know it.
So while they should lose the house, we are still bereft of popular leadership, of a leader that can build and run a political machine, and promises to restore the republic.