Trump and Aides Getting 'Spooked' About a Coming GOP Midterms 'Slaughter'
Source: Daily Beast
In recent months, President Trump has insisted that a red wave is coming this November and that Republicans would hold onto, and even expand, their majorities in the House and the Senate.
But as the election has gotten closer, the presidents outlook has increasingly soured, and that optimism he once exhibited from the campaign trail has been replaced by tangible fear over what a Democratic House next year might mean to his administration and inner circle.
Hes definitely more spooked than he was before, a senior West Wing official told The Daily Beast. Several of us are expecting to spend more time [testifying] on the Hill soon.
In public, Trump world is still arguing that Republicans will hold on to control of the House, with the president triumphantly tweeting taunts at the media for failing to acknowledge just how big an impact he is having in motivating voters.
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But three sources close to the president say that Trump and his aides are privately far more pessimistic. Recently, the president has stressed in conversations with confidants that if things go south for the GOP in November, he wont take the blame and is prepared to scapegoat other party leaders. In Trumps West Wing, words such as slaughter and massacre have come up among political, policy, and communications advisers in their private predictions of what this month could bring, according to three sources present for such conversations.
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C_U_L8R
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Juneboarder
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