Republicans’ 2026 midterm vulnerability is coming into sharper focus, according to a “CNN News Central” discussion featuring Andrew Desiderio, senior congressional reporter for Punchbowl News, and Puck’s chief Washington correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell.
The conversation opened around a phrase from Axios’ Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, who argued Monday that President Donald Trump’s “vincibility is being exposed” as courts restrain him, more GOP candidates publicly break with him, and the broader public turns against him.
“Democrats are really skeptical of being confident and are really worried about being overconfident,” Caldwell said. “But over the past couple of weeks, Democrats have been increasingly rosy about the midterm outlook, the fact that some of these internal polls in districts, including Shomari Figures in Alabama, which is a Trump plus-14 or [plus-]15 district, where even in Florida, Congressman [Darren] Soto, who is in a Trump plus-18 district right now because of redistricting in both of those gerrymandered seats that they say that things are just looking incredibly good.”
“Now, they’re not saying that those two Democrats are necessarily going to win those seats because they expect polls to tighten,” Caldwell added. “They expect money to be put into these races, but Democrats are increasingly optimistic, and the DCCC is … going in with money in that Alabama district, which is a sign that there is some confidence that maybe they could pull it out actually. So the political environment is quite good for Democrats at this stage, but they do caution that it needs to be this good, also, in early October, mid-October, and then they’ll feel much more, much better about the midterms.”
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