{"id":15289,"date":"2025-11-05T16:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-on-the-ballot-in-2026-johnson-says-after-gop-drubbing\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:16:51","slug":"trump-is-on-the-ballot-in-2026-johnson-says-after-gop-drubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-on-the-ballot-in-2026-johnson-says-after-gop-drubbing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trump is on the ballot in 2026,\u2019 Johnson says after GOP drubbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson connected House Republicans\u2019 fate in next year&#8217;s midterms to President Donald Trump Wednesday, just hours after GOP candidates took an Election Night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/11\/04\/democrats-elections-bidenism-disruption-00636860\" target=\"_blank\">drubbing from Democrats<\/a> who centered their campaigns on opposing him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is on the ballot next fall,\u201d Johnson said in his first comments of the off-year election results, delivered at a news conference outside the Capitol Wednesday. That, he explained, is because Democrats will work to unwind Trump\u2019s agenda and \u201cmove to impeach him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s remarks are in part meant to address anxieties among Republicans about the party&#8217;s lackluster electoral performance when Trump is not a candidate and can&#8217;t draw voters to GOP candidate down the ballot. <\/p>\n<p>But they also underscore what is certain to be a key Democratic message going into next year: that the midterms are a referendum on Trump, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/approval-rating\" target=\"_blank\">approval ratings<\/a> are currently in the low 40s, according to most recent polls\u2014 the lowest of his second term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson connected House Republicans\u2019 fate in next year&#8217;s midterms to President Donald Trump Wednesday, just hours after GOP candidates took an Election Night drubbing from Democrats who centered their campaigns on opposing him. \u201cPresident Trump is on the ballot next fall,\u201d Johnson said in his first comments of the off-year election results, delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}