As new nightmare scenarios loom, top Republicans are pointing the finger at President Donald Trump.
Republicans are on high alert after Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a state Senate seat in a North Texas district on Saturday that Trump won by 17 percentage points in 2024, The Hill reported.
That could be a bad sign for this year’s midterm elections, with Republicans now worried their slim majority in the U.S. Senate could also be swept away.
One Republican senator who attended a National Republican Senatorial Committee briefing on Tuesday said concerns about the midterm elections “should be very, very high.”
The congressman said the Texas loss should be “a wake-up call” as swing state Republican senators, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins and North Carolina’s retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, have warned their Senate colleagues that the party faces a “deteriorating” political environment.
Republicans say growing public dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the economy and ICE enforcement and deportations could be a death knell for Republicans at the ballot box.
“Senators are saying increasingly loudly that they are very, very concerned about the environment, which is continuing to deteriorate. They say it over and over again,” the senator said.
Republicans still believe they have a good chance of retaining the Senate, but they worry the rise of Democrats could lead to Democratic victories in Republican-leaning states such as Ohio, Alaska and Iowa.
Republicans have been considering the possibility of losing their House majority for months.
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