{"id":18510,"date":"2026-02-01T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-questions-if-gop-can-overcome-voters-psychological-midterms-hurdle\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:21:08","slug":"trump-questions-if-gop-can-overcome-voters-psychological-midterms-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-questions-if-gop-can-overcome-voters-psychological-midterms-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump questions if GOP can overcome voters\u2019 \u2018psychological\u2019 midterms hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is warning of a possible Democratic victory in November&rsquo;s midterm elections, seemingly lowering expectations for Republican wins well ahead of any voters heading to the ballot box. Trump regularly notes that the party in control of the White House historically tends to lose the midterms&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5715851-trump-warns-midterm-losses\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is warning of a possible Democratic victory in November&rsquo;s midterm elections, seemingly lowering expectations for Republican wins well ahead of any voters heading to the ballot box. Trump regularly notes that the party in control of the White House historically tends to lose the midterms&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510","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=18510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}