Donald Trump could end up facing a massive shift in support from Republican lawmakers, unhappy with the “daily humiliation” of having to defend his actions.
That is according to Politico’s Jonathan Martin, who reported to a “Morning Joe” panel that a former Republican senator pinpointed the date when some GOP lawmakers will feel free to speak their minds about what they really feel about the administration.
Citing the dual firestorm of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to kill purported drug runners on the open seas which has led to accusations of war crimes, and Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández after his conviction of drug trafficking, Martin claimed there is growing dissatisfaction with the president whose public standing is fading quickly.
Asked about upcoming congressional hearings on Hegseth’s actions, Martin told the panel, “Look, I think it’s one more rock on the back of the members of Congress that they’re carrying up the hill. And the hill is Mount Trump, and the hill is having to burden this daily humiliation.”
“Quite frankly, I talked to a former GOP senator yesterday, somebody who I know, Joe [Scarborough] knows, who said ‘two words’ to me: filing deadlines. Why do filing deadlines matter? Because what the senator was talking about was the filing deadlines for primaries next year, which is to say, when that clears, when that passes, when these lawmakers know who is or is not running against them in primaries next year, then you’ll see even more freedom, even more independence.”
“Because these guys care about their seats and about their reelections,” he elaborated. “And if they see that they don’t have a primary challenger by a date certain next year, 2026, they can start saying what they actually think about what [conservative columnist] George Will calls the ‘moral slum’ of this administration.”
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