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President Donald Trump is going to be the main issue in the 2026 midterms, but experts disagree as to whether the impending electoral disaster will be experienced by the Republicans or the Democrats. Now an election expert is shedding light on the situation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a competitive situation in both the Senate and the House,\u201d DDHQ\u2019s chief elections analyst Geoffrey Skelley told The Hill’s Julia Mueller on Sunday. He later added that \u201cthe big question is: will the Iranian conflict \u2026 will people being concerned about that ratcheting up, is that going to create reverberations in things like the generic ballot that signal \u2018OK, Democrats\u2019 advantage is growing again\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

Skelley also pointed out that Democrats\u2019 lead increases when there is bad news about Iran and gas prices go up, but shrinks when the conflict subsides and gas prices drop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge for Republicans is the Iranian conflict is heating up again,\u201d Skelley argued. <\/p>\n

Mueller reported, \u201cDemocrats are favored to win the House but are slight underdogs in the fight for the Senate with 100 days to go before the midterms, according to the latest forecast from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cBoth parties are dealing with headwinds as they head into the home stretch of the high-stakes election.\u201d While Republicans are worried about the Iran war, oil prices and lingering high inflation, Democrats have their own internal issues with which to grapple.<\/p>\n

\u201cWins by democratic socialist and antiestablishment candidates in House primaries across the country have sparked concerns from centrists that their party will be characterized as too extreme,\u201d Mueller reported. \u201cIt\u2019s a line of attack being emphasized by President Trump and GOP leaders in Washington working to convince voters not to hand power to the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She continued, \u201cThe result is a situation 100 days out that gives both parties reasons to be hopeful and worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

The polls are similarly concerning for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point in the 2018 cycle, when Democrats won big in the so-called blue wave, the generic ballot showed Democrats up by an average of 7 points or 8 points, DDHQ said, which is double the current edge,\u201d Mueller wrote.<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cWith just more than three months until Election Day, the tight forecasts make races like the Michigan Senate fight must-wins for both parties, adding urgency to the handful of toss-up contests that could decide control on Capitol Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times similarly reported on Democrats\u2019 perceived incompetence on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the center is Ken Martin, the 53-year-old party chairman, who has found himself increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts, according to interviews with more than two dozen Democrats, including current and former D.N.C. officials and members,\u201d wrote The New York Times\u2019 Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein on Sunday. \u201cMost of them spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the party\u2019s troubled state of affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goldmacher and Epstein continued, \u201cMr. Martin\u2019s fraying nerves are showing. In a pique of frustration in early July, he threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while upbraiding the person. The phone-tossing incident resulted in a formal complaint to the D.N.C.\u2019s human resources department.\u201d<\/p>\n

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