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{"id":26795,"date":"2026-08-07T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-voters-are-mad-at-other-republicans-not-him-as-midterms-approach\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:17:37","slug":"trump-says-voters-are-mad-at-other-republicans-not-him-as-midterms-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-voters-are-mad-at-other-republicans-not-him-as-midterms-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says voters are mad at other Republicans, not him, as midterms approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump said voters may seek to punish Republicans \u2014 but not him \u2014 in the November midterm elections, as GOP lawmakers sweat that affordability concerns and the war in Iran could mean Democrats flip the House and perhaps even the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re angry at Republicans,\u201d Trump said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9omos50y8k\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Punchbowl News<\/a> that aired Friday. \u201cBut they\u2019re not angry at me. They\u2019re not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The GOP faces the prospect of heavy losses this November, as gas and grocery prices remain stubbornly high due in part to the White House\u2019s five-month-long war in Iran. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/the-iran-was-is-rattling-republicans-and-they-say-the-white-house-isnt-helping-01028239\" target=\"_blank\">administration\u2019s guidance on campaign trail messaging<\/a> has been \u201ctone deaf,\u201d House Republicans fear.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/polling-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\">approval rating has tumbled<\/a> since he returned to the Oval Office last year, and even his biggest supporters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/22\/poll-maga-souring-iran-war-costs-trump-01006976\" target=\"_blank\">grown frustrated over his Middle East war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And with a messy, jam-packed slate of primaries now all but in the rearview mirror, Democrats are determined to go on offense. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/08\/05\/congress\/dccc-midterms-map-expansion-01025114\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has 58 seats<\/a> on its midterm target map that stretches into redder territory \u2014 while still facing an uphill climb to take the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/21\/maga-inc-cash-candidates-01006198\" target=\"_blank\">has a massive war chest<\/a> at his disposal. His MAGA Inc. super PAC reached $400 million in June. The president told Punchbowl he plans to use it to \u201chelp Republicans,\u201d but he stressed that he faces no pressure in this campaign cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to somebody, \u2018Wait a minute, you don\u2019t understand, I won,\u2019\u201d Trump said, referencing his 2024 presidential election victory. \u201cI\u2019m not campaigning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue for Republicans this year? That Trump himself is not on the ballot, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I don\u2019t run, will those people go out and vote? And that\u2019s the one thing I can&#8217;t tell, I\u2019m going to ask them to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said voters may seek to punish Republicans \u2014 but not him \u2014 in the November midterm elections, as GOP lawmakers sweat that affordability concerns and the war in Iran could mean Democrats flip the House and perhaps even the Senate. \u201cThey\u2019re angry at Republicans,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Punchbowl News [&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-26795","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\/26795","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=26795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}