Trump Is Losing It As Midterm Election Defeat Approaches
Trump makes a fresh bad decision that will come back to haunt his party in November, as the president lost it on Friday, as is showing signs of breaking as a midterm defeat approaches.
On some level, Donald Trump understands that he is doomed. The president, who may be the most self-deluded in history, appears to sense the hurricane-force political winds that are blowing against his party in the midterm election.
That is the only way to explain why Trump is pushing Republicans so hard to pass the doomed SAVE America Act. The word doomed is not used lightly in this context. The Senate has held weeks and weeks of debate on Trump’s massive voter suppression bill and has made zero progress because a group of Republican Senators doesn’t want to give any president control of elections, which would run counter to the Constitution.
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Senate Republicans also don’t want to kill the filibuster, which would be necessary to pass Trump’s anti-voting agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Thune has repeatedly told Trump and his supporters that the SAVE America Act is dead, so Trump announced he will not sign any legislation the Senate sends him until they pass his desired legislation.
Trump has refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that isn’t a massive game-changer, but it is a piece of legislation that Republicans needed politically to have something to take to voters to show that they care about affordability.
Then Trump got involved and showed signs of completely coming unglued on Friday.
