The remarks also represent a jockeying for position in an anticipated post-Trump world, when the party will have to chart a new path. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a former Trump rival and now a staunch ally, said recently on CNBC that if Americans are angry and depressed, “we could lose the White House and both houses of Congress," and the 2020 election “could be a bloodbath of Watergate proportions. “There needs to be a significant change,” she said, and insisted that Sasse represents the misgivings of many party elites who are afraid to speak up.Īt the Supreme Court hearing for Amy Coney Barrett last Thursday, Graham, the Judiciary Chairman and a Trump golfing partner who is in a close re-election battle, told Democrats, “Y’all have a good chance of winning the White House.” Troye, a longtime Republican, says she plans to vote for Biden and Democrats down the ballot this fall. But I think it's no longer helpful to do that for them.” “They have ridden the Trump wave long enough. I think they're realizing that the Trump show is almost over,” said Olivia Troye, a former homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. “I hope that they're having a moment of moral clarity.
The grim GOP outlook follows Trump’s widely criticized debate showing, hospitalization for Covid and a failure to secure an economic stimulus package. The elevated fears come as Democrat Joe Biden leads Trump by more than 9 points in the NBC News national polling average, and as some forecasters say Democrats are likely to secure control of Congress. “I’m now looking at the possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senate.” “I’m worried that if President Trump loses - as looks likely - that he’s going to take the Senate down with him,” Sasse said in a conference call with constituents, according to audio first reported on Thursday by the Washington Examiner. All are former critics turned allies who reliably vote with the president. Pointed warnings of electoral defeat have come in recent days from Sen. Some are openly fretting that he’ll turn the party's candidates into electoral roadkill, and are distancing themselves from him to an unusual extent.Ī weekend of agonizing from Republicans did not yield any perceivable course correction from Trump as he continued his inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail, and directed some of his fire right back at anxious GOP senators on Twitter. WASHINGTON - Republican senators are increasingly voicing fears that President Donald Trump could lose the election.
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