Exactly one year from the crucial 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump is predicting his own party will fare very poorly unless senators ditch the filibuster and ram through a host of partisan bills he claims would make the GOP nearly unbeatable in future contests.
In a morning Truth Social post authored as polls opened for gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey — and a closely-watched mayoral election in his former home of New York City — Trump wrote that Democrats “are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election” unless senators vote to scrap the 60-vote threshold for most legislation in the upper chamber.
