After traveling to Alaska and holding a rally on Tuesday night, someone thought it was a good idea to send the 80-year-old president to the nation’s epicenter of election denialism and let him swear and rant and rave conspiracy theories.

Republicans in Arizona were already very worried because they have election deniers at the top of the ballot in the state, but if they thought they had any chance of winning, that likely vanished when Donald Trump took the stage and began talking about election conspiracies.

Trump also claimed that Gov. Katie Hobbs is paid off by the drug cartels:

 Our governor, Katie Hobbs, does the bidding of the cartels. People say she's paid off by the cartels. I wouldn't be surprised. They got plenty of cash. Because what she does, it doesn't make sense. Something has to be between her and the cartels because she's causing tremendous death in your state.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is not paid off by drug cartels. Trump is at the point in the campaign where he is desperately making up crazy stuff.

Speaking of crazy, Trump’s went off on a long bender about election conspiracies.

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The problem with Trump’s election conspiracies is that they discourage people from voting. The bigger problem for Trump and his party is that his conspiracies discourage Republicans from voting.

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We are witnessing the end of the Trump era. It has been more than a decade since Donald Trump came onto the national political scene as a presidential candidate, and while the president’s critics have been predicting that his political sway would come to an end for years, there is now solid evidence and people within Trump’s party who are suggesting that it’s over.

It wasn’t Democrats or people within Trump’s own party who brought the era to an end. The person who caused the demise of the Trump Era was Donald Trump. The president got a second crack at the White House and decided that in his next administration, he would be unchecked and unrestrained.

This was like Tokyo inviting Godzilla over for coffee, then being surprised when he burned the entire city to the ground.

Republicans did this to themselves, willingly and on purpose, which means that they deserve no sympathy for the coast-to-coast destruction of their party.

Alaska has elected Democrats in the past. It has had Democratic senators, governors, and representatives. State and local Democrats have been elected. It was just 11 years ago that Alaska had a Democratic senator, Mark Begich. Current US Senate Democratic candidate Mary Peltola served Alaska in the US House from 2022 to 2025.

Electing Democrats beneath the presidential level is not a foreign concept in Alaska.

What is happening in 2026 is different.

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It is clear now why Republicans are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas, beyond trying to prop up the worst Senate candidate in the country. Ken Paxton is unpopular and scandal-riddled, but he was Donald Trump’s choice to be the state’s Senate nominee, so the Republican Party is left trying to figure out how to get Paxton elected or face humiliation in one of the flagship states for conservatism in the United States.

It is not going great. Paxton has been everything his critics thought he was and more. The Republican candidate has spent more time complaining about his own party and Trump weighing him down than he has debating his opponent, because Ken Paxton has ignored pleas from his party and refused to debate.

Republicans in Texas have become so comfortable because they haven’t faced a real threat of losing statewide in decades. The state Republican Party has worked tirelessly to suppress the vote and redraw congressional districts to keep themselves in power.

Their reinforced statewide one-party rule was working great until Donald Trump came along and broke everything.

Trump made himself and his party so unpopular that the backbone of the Republican base has started to crack. Rural voters, white voters, and soft Republicans (non-MAGAs) are fleeing the party. The 2024 gains with Hispanic voters look like a mirage.

On Tuesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson echoed Republican Party talking points by suggesting that all of the polls are wrong because they aren’t talking to enough Republicans.

A new poll of Texas measured the electorate based on the results of the 2024 election (Trump +14), and it showed that James Talarico is on course to win.

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Speaker Mike Johnson has been running around the country, appointing himself Trump’s co-president and trying to convince voters that a House majority that barely shows up for work deserves two more years in power.

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Johnson has tried to scare voters with communism and socialism, threats of Trump being investigated, and seemingly everything else under the sun.

Mike Johnson will be given notice by the American people that he will be removed from his job as Speaker of the House in January 2027. Johnson has always appeared to be a Trump true believer, and not one of those Republicans who saddled up to Trump to benefit their career in the Republican Party.

Judging by a recent appearance on Fox News, Speaker Johnson is not handling his upcoming defeat well.

Johnson claimed that Democrats are going to investigate everything surrounding Trump:

 But they also wanna go after, they wanna do lawfare on steroids, okay? So if this group took over, heaven forbid, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body.

They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, you know, donors to the party, leaders in business and industry. It would roil the markets, and it would empower our enemies around the world at the worst possible time. We just simply can't go down that road ... and they're running on those very things indeed.

Johnson was terrified that the House would do its job and conduct oversight if Democrats win the majority.

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In Michigan, Republicans are trying to make the election all about Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed. In Texas, Republicans want the election to be about Democratic candidate James Talarico.

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The two Democrats differ in important ways. El-Sayed is more progressive. Talarico is more moderate.

In both states, deep red Texas and Michigan, Donald Trump’s economy has pummeled voters and opened the door wide for Democrats to hold the seat in Michigan and break a decades-long statewide drought in Texas.

Trump has so far stayed out of Michigan, but the president has been to Texas multiple times and also sent his vice president to the state.

JD Vance returned to Texas on Tuesday, and with about three weeks until Election Day, showed how low the administration is willing to go.

Donald Trump created the GOP headache in Texas by primarying incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn, and replacing him with his corruption mini-me, state attorney general Ken Paxton.

Since Paxton is about as popular as eating lead paint, Trump and Vance are trying to save the day and keep Democrats from flipping a Senate seat.

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Being White House Press Secretary is not an easy job. Standing up for the first time in front of the world and taking questions from reporters has to be challenging, and anyone would probably be nervous the first time.

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What Katie Zacharia will live on in comedy infamy for a very long time.

The “briefing” was only 14 minutes long. The White House intentionally bumped it up against a Trump departure. Zacharia took a total of 3 questions during the entire briefing.

Breitbart, Fox News, and The Daily Mail got the three questions. A conservative website, a conservative television channel, and a conservative tabloid were the only reporters called on in the room.

The new press secretary spent most of her time reading from a prepared statement that contained such gems as:

 Everyday Americans are showing up in droves to attend these rallies because of President Trump's America First agenda of lower taxes, higher wages, and one of my favorites, secure borders

But it doesn't stop there. President Trump is planning to hold rallies in Alaska, Arizona, Montana, where I will be with him, and Georgia, building off of the incredible momentum generated over the last several days from his stops in Tennessee, New York, Texas, and Nebraska.

He is an energetic president.

Attendance is at record highs as enthusiastic, hardworking Americans are lining up and packing arenas to support President Trump and Republicans It's not hard to see why. President Trump is fighting and delivering for American workers every minute of every day.

Trump is so energetic that he regularly falls asleep in the Oval Office in front of the TV cameras.

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Donald Trump is retreating from reality as the Republican Party is facing what could be a historic midterm election defeat.

Even though Republicans are saying that Trump is sinking the entire party, the president seems to think that he is saving the midterms.

While speaking to reporters before he left for what feels like 615th rally in Ohio, Trump first criticized Republicans for not supporting his illegal diesel deal with Putin.

The president said:

 Well, I think these are Republicans that can't really be serious. We have, you know, we make a lot of oil. We could do a restriction on oil, but the rest of the world would be greatly, greatly affected if we do that.

And we could do a restriction, you know, a cap on diesel, keep it all for ourselves. That would have a very big impact. And it's not really a deal with me, it's a deal for the rest of the world. So anything that could help our farmers, our ranchers, I like. And I do think this, Zelenskyy has to focus on making a deal, not talking about that.

As Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) said, Trump’s deal with Putin is blatantly illegal. Trump is violating a law enacted three years ago banning the importation of Russian diesel.

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No matter how badly the midterm election goes for Republicans, there will still be Republicans in office all over the country, but having members of a party in office is not the same as having power.

What Republicans risk right now is their power.

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For a decade, Republicans have surrendered their fate and the party’s power to Donald Trump.

This arrangement got Trump elected in 2016 and Republicans in power. Two years later, that power was lost to a Democratic midterm election victory. Trump failed to keep and restore Republican power in 2020, and in hindsight, the Republican victory in 2024 that returned Trump and his party to power looks more like a strategic implosion by the Democratic Party than anything Trump and the GOP did well.

Trump no longer has a reason to need or care about the fate of the Republican Party. He is term-limited, and the president likes to remind everyone that he doesn’t care about the midterm election and will keep his job no matter how many seats Republicans lose.

The end result is that Trump is holding “midterm rallies” that aren’t in battleground states, and don’t focus on Republican candidates.

The rallies are really a chance for an aging president to play his hits one more time in front of smaller crowds.

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Abdul El-Sayed was the Democratic non-incumbent Senate candidate that Republicans wanted to run against in the general election. Republicans were flat-out giddy when El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, but things have not gone as well or as easily as Republicans expected.

El-Sayed has shown himself to be a good campaigner and an even better communicator.

There were many questions that Meet The Press’s Kristen Welker could have begun her interview with El-Sayed with. The number one issue on the minds of voters is the economy. Welker could have asked about gas prices, diesel prices, inflation, or any other economic that is front and center.

Instead, she chose to ask:

You announced that former President Obama is going to join you on the campaign trail a little bit later on this month in Detroit. You have been critical, though, of President Obama. After voting for his re-election in 2012, you wrote, quote, “Obama was not the right choice. He just wasn’t the wrong one. This leader has perpetrated war, violated our civil liberties, deported more people from our shores than any other president before him, and the list of his failures goes on.” Do you still see President Obama’s presidency as a failure?

Every trip to the gas station and grocery store is painful, but Welker chose to start with Obama in what looked like a bit to stoke controversy and divide Democrats.

It didn’t work.

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Did anyone think that red-state Kansas would be a political hotbed during the 2026 midterm election?

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The fact that Kansas is in play for Democrats, not just in the Senate election but also in House races and state races, is due to the level of economic damage, hardship, and pain that Donald Trump and his policies have brought down upon the Midwest.

In a normal midterm election where the out of power party is expected to do well, the Kansas US Senate race would not be expected to be closely contested.

Republicans are so worried about Kansas that they sent Vice President JD Vance to the state to campaign. When Vance was in Kansas, he drew a small crowd and got heckled, which revealed a lot about the mood toward Trump and Republicans in the state.

ABC This Week’s Jon Karl said to Hamilton, “The vice president came to campaign against you.”

Hamilton responded, “ I consider that a great compliment, that the second most powerful man in America came here to try to save Roger Marshall.”

It was when Hamilton was asked about Vance’s attacks on his religion that the Kansas Democrat destroyed the VP.

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Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, have been making the argument that they need more time to fix what is broken in the economy.

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Last month, while appearing on a podcast, Vance said:

There’s a lot of good that’s been done, but there’s a lot of work left to do. Don’t give power to the people who cause the problems that we’re fixing. give us another chance or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we’ve been doing for the past 2 years. And the second argument I’d make is even if you don’t agree with us on every issue, the other party is consumed by craziness.

The argument from Republicans is that Democrats broke the economy, and they are fixing it.

Voters aren’t buying it.

One of the biggest shifts from Trump’s first administration to his second was that in Trump’s first term, he used Barack Obama’s economy to convince people that he knew what he was doing.

The truth has been revealed to the American people in Trump’s second term, and even Republicans are admitting that the American people aren’t buying what Trump and his party are trying to sell.

Even if some miracle happened and things got better overnight, it is too late to help Republicans.

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When Trump announced his deal with Putin to import Russian diesel that he just sanctioned other countries for importing, the president posted on Truth Social:

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I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel.

Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon!

300,000 tons of diesel fuel sounds like a lot, but diesel is a liquid that is measured in gallons, and when broken down into gallons, the truth about Trump’s deal is revealed.

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When a president is as unpopular as Donald Trump, it turns out that there are no safe spaces. During his rally in Syracuse, NY, Trump was interrupted by a protester who flipped him off with both middle fingers as she was escorted out of the venue.

The rally itself was as stale as Trump and his presidency.

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Some protesters go out quietly. Some go out holding signs and chanting.

The woman in Syracuse went out like a protester version of Stone Cold Steven Austin, as she was talking smack to the crowd and Trump, while flipping middle fingers everywhere.

It was one of the most defiant protester removals I have seen in a while.

Trump threw a fit and claimed the protester was paid:

 You know, they're all paid protesters, uh, you know You know, they're all paid by the radical left scum. They're all paid. You ever see these people with the signs? They're all beautiful, like, you know, totally professionally made. They're the same print, the same color, they come from the same... No, those are all paid political actors. Losers, all. Every one of them is a loser.

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It could have been a big misunderstanding, but considering how Donald Trump and his White House have treated the press, and that the TV press pool just stood up to Trump and blacked him out for days at the White House after he tried to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, there might be no such thing as a coincidence.

The White House is still playing games by banning reporters from Air Force One, so the battle between the free press and the administration is not over.

Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro stepped up to the microphones in the White House driveway to speak to reporters, but the TV press pool camera wasn’t turned on, and for some reason, the person running the camera would not turn it on.

C-SPAN was there and picked up Navarro on the phone saying, “So, this shithead with the pool camera won’t turn on the camera. What’s the deal with that?”

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This is just a guess, but Navarro and other White House officials might have an easier time getting in front of live cameras if they were not trying to destroy the First Amendment every single day.

Once the cameras were turned on, Navarro did have something to say about cutting social programs.

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Somebody thought sending Vice President JD Vance back to Ohio was a good idea, but listening to Vance talk in Lima, his speech was a combination of detachment from reality, lies, and, at one point, I had to make sure we were still in the year 2026 because Vance name-dropped Nancy Pelosi as part of the “radical far left.”

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First, Vance tried to convince Ohio voters that everything is going great:

 South of here is Middletown, but north is Toledo and Stellantis is investing four hundred million dollars into a new manufacturing plant to produce Jeeps right here in Ohio. 90 minutes south of us, Electra, a great company, is investing $850 million in aerospace manufacturing just outside of Springfield, Ohio

And Bayer, one of America's biggest pharmaceutical companies, is putting $2.2 billion into a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in central Ohio, and Bernie Moreno deserves a lot of credit for that, and so does John Husted Now there's so much more we could talk about, but that's just three examples of thousands of permanent jobs for Ohio workers, all thanks to an administration backed up by great leadership that is fighting to put America first.

According to JD, things are great as long as you don’t look at the cost of food, gas, and utilities, and never think about how inflation is eating away at your paycheck.

Vance threatened that if Democrats won, all of Ohio’s economic success would go away, “If we take the smart leadership this state has had and replace it with a person who wants to mask your kids and have girls play with boys in sports, then you're never gonna get the great economic boom that is coming to this state.”

JD Vance then tried to talk about inflation.

JD Vance Lied About Inflation And Here Is The Proof

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House Republicans came into 2026 knowing that they had a small, less than five-seat margin in their majority, which meant that they faced uphill odds to keep power. This realization is why Trump and his party tried to gerrymander as many House seats as they could.

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The gerrymander strategy was dependent on the Republicans not losing voters and the midterm election looking just like the 2024 presidential election.

Both of these assumptions turned out to be false.

Republicans are facing the worst party-in-power voter backlash since 1994, when Democrats lost 54 House seats and 8 Senate seats.

Election direction tends to become clear in the final days and weeks.

Democrats have known that they were likely to take back the House since Trump returned to the White House. Trump is the least popular president in the history of polling, so a wave election in 2026 was always possible, but no one expected what Trump and the Republicans have unleashed on themselves.

The bad news for Republicans is that they aren’t sure where rock bottom is. The GOP can’t plan for the worst-case scenario, but the situation on the ground keeps deteriorating. The party’s cash advantage over Democrats has been useless, and those on the ground fear a catastrophic defeat next month.

Why A Catastrophic Loss Could Set The Republican Party Back Years

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The debate between the candidates for Michigan’s open US Senate seat was ugly. Mike Rogers can’t run a successful Senate campaign by cozying up to Donald Trump and running on the issues. Instead, Rogers has to make the debate about Abdul El-Sayed.

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In contrast, El-Sayed spent the debate that was loaded with personal attacks linking Rogers to Trump and the president’s unpopular policies.

The debate exchange of the night came when El-Sayed said:

 He wanted to make this about him or me, but the question is about you. Can you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries? Under this guy who's gonna rubber-stamp everything Donald Trump tells him to rubber-stamp, you're gonna continue to pay way more out of your nose because he works for corporations and Donald Trump.

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Some people might suggest that this was not the kind of debate that would help voters make a decision, but the opposite was true.

The debate was deeply insightful, just not in the way that Mike Rogers intended.

Rogers wants to have it both ways. He wants to “other” El-Sayed while distancing himself from Trump.

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Republicans have been struggling over what to do with Donald Trump during the midterm election. The White House eventually came up with the strategy of only sending the president to red states in the hopes of keeping him out of key races.

Trump came up with the idea to use taxpayer money to create a series of campaign ads touting himself and his presidency. The ads were illegal, and those who helped the president make them could face charges of felony criminal theft.

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Donald Trump has been personally approving the ads and at the head of the campaign. After much blowback that includes lawsuits and threats of congressional investigation, Trump announced that his super PAC would be paying for the ads, which is another crime, as the president admitted that he is illegally running his super PAC.

Trump is being quarantined like a virus to red states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama, but those ads that he is running are still infecting elections all across the country.

Republicans who were afraid to say anything negative about Trump are increasingly grumbling about him, and the president is described as being livid about how the midterm election is going.

It’s Bad For Republicans And Getting Worse

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It has been nearly ten years since Barack Obama concluded what many regard as one of the great presidencies in US history and the most successful of this century so far.

When Obama was in office, Republicans blaming Obama was one of the running jokes on the internet. If a Republican lost his car keys, there was a good chance he would blame Obama. Spouse filed for divorce? That’s Obama’s fault too. Republicans would try to pin anything on Obama.

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Donald Trump is looking at a disaster of a midterm election, so with no policies to run on and everything else failing, the president and his administration have returned to blaming Obama.

Last week, House Republicans blamed Obama for gas prices. This week, the administration is blaming Obama for diesel prices.

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Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on The Charlie Kirk Show:

 You just want robustness. You need some redundancy. You need some extra capacity. And again, from the arrival of President Obama, the Democrat policy has just been to somehow strangle the oil and gas industry and the coal industry and somehow believe that would lead to a magical replacements for these energy sources. They just don't exist.

But that strangulation, years of strangulation, just meant our buffer for crisis was reduced so much that now we have multiple conflicts in the world today, and we're paying the price for that. But the, the Republicans, again, and President Trump are leaning in.

We're growing our energy production. We're helping refineries expand. In fact, I was at a nuclear power plant in Ohio yesterday. We're helping that uprate add two hundred megawatts of additional power. We visited a steel plant that makes custom steel just for transformers, key for our electrical grid. That steel plant was almost closed and killed under Democratic rule as well.

So look, the Republican agenda has never been more important. Build big things in America. Grow supply. That's how you lower prices. Democrats never believe in supply and demand. They somehow think they're gonna choke supply and that that's gonna help prices.

The idea that America can increase the supply of oil and lower the price is one of the biggest falsehoods consistently spread by Republicans. Oil is a global market. The United States government does not drill for or refine oil. Oil extracted in the United States belongs to the oil company that holds the lease on the land. There is no such thing as “American oil” or American supply.

Trump did strangle supply with the Iran war. That’s why prices are higher. If this is Obama’s fault, why were prices low during his administration?

The Trump administration has no answers, so they are trying to fire up the MAGA base with racism by blaming Obama.

It’s not going to work.

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Trump doesn’t have any positive issues to run on, so he has spent the midterm election campaign trying to gaslight voters about the economy, while at the same time dismissing the problems and concerns of the American people.

Democrats have been non-committal on the idea of impeaching Donald Trump for a third time if they win back the House majority, because they understand that the economy is the primary concern of voters.

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Democrats are promising to investigate Trump and his family’s apparent corruption.

This promise of investigations seems to have concerned Trump to the point where went off when asked about being impeached again.

Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Trump, “ You started telling midterm voters that if Democrats win control of Congress, they will impeach you. For what?”

Trump answered with a moment of pure delusion:

 They don't know because they were asked that question two... I saw two congressmen and a senator so far ask that question. They said President Trump has created the greatest economy." When you see the real economy, what's happening with factories being built all over the country, it was... Today it came out. There's never been a time like this, ever, where $21 trillion.

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We said, "So President Trump has done a lot. You could add the eight wars to it. You could add the biggest tax cuts in history, all these things. What would you impeach him for?" And all three didn't know. They said, "We don't know. I don't know." One of them was just dumbfounded by the question. He said, "Yeah, we would impeach him." "And what would you exactly impeach him for?" I don't know. Let's see. Let's think." That's it. So that's as far as he got.

In Trump’s mind, his various financial schemes, taking a bribe plane from another country, blowing up innocent boats in the Caribbean, his immigration actions, and the war in Iran are not impeachable offenses.

Trump is so worried about impeachment that he went on to issue a threat to Democrats.

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