Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Trump Offers Blueprint on How Republicans Can Win the Midterms and Future Elections
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell / RedState 
 
Much of the legacy media has fixated on one portion of President Donald Trump's Tuesday remarks at the House GOP retreat. Meanwhile, they bypassed a key strategy and the policies Trump outlined for Republicans to succeed in the legislative session and win in the midterms.   

Trump said this to the GOP members:

You gotta win the midterms. 'Cause if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna to be... I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached. We don't impeach them, you know why? Because they're meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for a hundred different things. 

Here's where many outlets and influencers have cut the clip, no doubt for the goal of driving clicks. Not only does this lose the full context of his remarks, but it misses the point of why Trump was addressing the House GOP at the beginning of the legislative session. So, opinion journalists launched off on their own take about what this portends for the rest of Trump's presidency, while news journalists rehashed facts and figures on the last two impeachment attempts by Democrats against Trump 45 and 47. Read more, see Xs and videos here.

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