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The midterm elections are just 24 days away, and Trump’s spending them attacking his own party. I’ve worked for campaigns all across the country, and I’ve watched a lot of Republicans lose. I’ve never watched a party’s own leader work this hard to lose.
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He Went After His Own Senator Over Clocks
Trump had one month left to save his majority in Congress. Last Saturday, he decided to go all in on a fight with one of his own senators—over a clock.
Trump wants the country on daylight saving time all year long. GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas doesn’t. So Trump publicly posted what he claimed was Cotton’s cellphone number, told people to call it, and argued that pro golfers need more daylight. Republicans sold their souls for this fool, and he’s blowing their final stretch on clocks and golf because one senator wouldn’t fold.
Trump then wrote this: “Give the Republican Party a Senatorial WIN, for a change!” For a change. The leader of the party just told the country his senators don’t win. By the end of the post he was shouting: “TAKE THE WIN TOM, JUST TAKE THE WIN! YOU NEED IT, AND SO DOES OUR BELOVED REPUBLICAN PARTY!”
That’s a manbaby begging, and for nothing. This week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the clock bill Trump wants has “no clear path forward.” A normal politician spends October attacking the other party. Trump can only see whoever told him no last. Every hour he spends fighting his own senators is an hour he’s not attacking ours—and I’ll take every one of them.
He Dumped The Senator Who Could Hold Texas
In Texas, Republicans haven’t lost a Senate race since 1988. All Trump had to do was leave it alone—but that would require him being a grownup.
GOP Sen. John Cornyn held the seat for four terms. But in May, Trump decided to back his challenger, Texas AG Ken Paxton. In 2023, Republicans in the Texas House impeached Paxton on corruption charges, but the state Senate let him keep his job.
Trump put his reasoning in writing: Cornyn “was not supportive of me when times were tough.” A week later, Cornyn lost the runoff.
That’s the new Republican Party that Trump built. You can be corrupt and stay. But if you hurt Trump’s feelings—you’re gone. He doesn’t want senators, he wants a room full of cult members who clap.
A Fox poll late last month had Democrat James Talarico ahead 51% to 49%. Trump told one rally that his side is “worried about Texas.” In San Antonio this week, he warned Texans about a Talarico win: “We’ll never forgive you for what you have done if you let that happen.” One Republican group already burned $131 million helping Paxton—money that’s not being spent in Iowa or Ohio, two toss-ups they also need.
Democrats need four more seats to take the Senate. We’ve spent years trying to make Texas a coin flip. Trump did it for us over a grudge and a bruised ego.
He Chained Every Republican To Himself
In Alabama last Friday, Trump told a rally, “Just close your eyes and pretend I’m on the ballot.” He’s not. But the Republicans on the ballot chained themselves to him on purpose. They took his endorsements and voted to keep his war going. They aren’t his victims. They’re his accomplices. And the moment one of them steps out of line, he turns on them.
Ask GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida. Her ad said parts of Trump’s immigration crackdown had gone too far, and that the Hispanic voters who helped elect him “feel betrayed.” He shared more than a dozen attacks on her with his followers, in one sitting. One called her “nothing but a back stabber.” That’s the deal now: go down with him, or get taken down on his social media.
I have no sympathy for her. She thanked him for his endorsement. She helped make the chain that’s attached her to Trump, and now she gets to wear it. And he’s welcome to keep swinging. Six in ten voters don’t like the job he’s doing, and he wants every race in America to be about him. So do I.
He Gave Himself An A-Plus
On October 1, a reporter asked Trump whether Republicans were doing enough to sell his record. “I give us an A+ on the government, on economics, on everything,” he said.
Diesel fuel runs farm tractors and delivery trucks, and its price hit an all-time record high last month. Gas and groceries cost more than a year ago, and most of the country never wanted his war with Iran. He gave himself and his party an A+ anyway.
Later on October 1, he told a crowd in Texas, “The only thing we’re doing badly at is public relations.” He thinks a family’s grocery bill is a PR problem.
Two of his own Senate candidates, Mike Rogers in Michigan and Ashley Hinson in Iowa, got nervous enough to call for keeping more American diesel at home instead of shipping it overseas. “We were never going to do it,” Trump told reporters on October 2.
Then yesterday, after a call with Vladimir Putin, he announced that Russia would ship diesel to “the American and Global Marketplace.” His own candidates got a no, while Putin got a deal.
After all that, Trump’s closing pitch is still to tell Americans who are hurting that they’re fine. It’s one of the worst campaign messages in US history, and it’s great news for us, because every Republican on the ballot owns that lie now.
And this time, he doesn’t get to grade them. We do.
Trump’s doing everything he can to destroy the Republican Party. I think he still remembers how many Republicans turned on him after Jan 6, and now he’s punishing them for it. Whether it’s a plan or just his ego, I don’t really care. I just love to see it. If they lose everything in November, they’ll blame him. They shouldn’t. They handed him the keys and cheered, and now they’re stuck with him until January 2029.
We have just 24 days to go. Trump can lose this election for Republicans, but somebody still has to go win it. That part is us, and we’re working around the clock. The team here at The Dworkin Report has graded Trump honestly since 2016, from helping uncover the Russia scandal to running the first campaign to impeach him. He’s never earned a passing grade from us—and never will.
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Scott
What grade would you give Trump for his second term so far?
Trump told Tom Cotton to “take the win.” What win do you want to wake up to on November 4?
Happy Saturday, everyone. Four letters, about a minute each:
Demand every page of the Epstein files.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-demand-acting-ag-blanche-release-all-of-the-epstein-files-now/
Impeach John Roberts.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts/
Protect 45 million acres of national forest.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trump-from-destroying-45-million-acres-of-our-national-forests/
Ban AI nobody can control.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-pass-the-ban-on-ai-we-cant-control/
Tell me below which ones you sent.
Awesome indeed and good riddance GOP.🙏💙🌊