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Facing the prospect of major losses in the midterms, Republicans are quietly admitting that the best thing for their electoral chances would be for President Donald Trump to \u201cdisappear.\u201d This is according to Miles Taylor, who served as Homeland Security Deputy Chief of Staff during Trump\u2019s first term, and who revealed on Tuesday that a \u201cpre-midterm panic<\/u>\u201d has gripped the Republicans over the president\u2019s bad polling numbers, his tightfistedness with funds, and a \u201cTrumpapalooza\u201d convention \u201cno one wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Taylor writes<\/u> of a recent encounter with \u201ca prominent Republican \u2013 someone GOP candidates have flocked to for guidance for years,\u201d who admitted to a phrase that has been circulating among party members facing reelection in November: \u201cI wish he would disappear.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe reference is to Donald Trump<\/u>, of course,\u201d Taylor explains. \u201cNever before have Republicans had to campaign under the banner of such a weak figurehead, nor one so insistent on stapling his toxic brand to the party, whether the party likes it or not\u2026By nearly every measure, my former boss enters this midterm election as the weakest President in the modern polling era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here Taylor cites Trump\u2019s historically low polling numbers, noting that the president\u2019s collapse among independents is particularly stark, plunging from the mid-40s in 2018 to just 18 percent today. \u201cCan the party get over that hump?\u201d asks Taylor. \u201cNot if history is any guide. There\u2019s no modern precedent for a party facing numbers that bad and not getting walloped.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as Taylor reminds, \u201cRemember what happened in 2018, when Trump\u2019s numbers were far better than they are today? I do. Behind the scenes, he was apoplectic. Democrats<\/u> flipped 41 House seats in the midterms that year (the party\u2019s biggest gain since the post-Watergate wipeout of 1974), and won the national popular vote by nearly nine points and almost 10 million ballots. That represented the largest raw margin in midterm history and the highest midterm turnout in a century \u2013 when Trump was 10 points above where he is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s more, Republicans are worried about the Dallas \u201cmidterm convention\u201d Trump has planned for September. According to Taylor, \u201cThere\u2019s never been such a thing; conventions are usually just for presidential election years. In fact, the Republican National Committee had to rewrite its rules in January to allow it. Now, the RNC chairman is openly billing the two-day event as a \u2018Trumpapalooza,\u2019 surely to the eye rolls of swing-state candidates, who would probably suffer less politically if they were spotted doing drugs at a music festival than if they were caught flashing forced grins and thumbs-up at a Trump carnival.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWorse still for Republican candidates,\u201d writes Taylor, \u201cis that the man tying himself to their fate has been remarkably stingy with his money. Trump\u2019s super PAC fundraising committee has amassed a war chest in excess of $400m. Of that, roughly $2.3m (about half a percent) has gone to help Republican candidates. Recent disbursements, according to federal filings, include consulting fees, bank charges and an event photographer. Bloomberg reported at the end of July that Trump had yet to approve spending a single dollar of it on the midterms, with his allies increasingly panicked that he never will.\u201d<\/p>\n

With all that in mind, concludes Taylor, \u201cRepublican candidates find themselves in the worst possible position this year. Intimately shackled to Trump\u2019s flagging brand, yet getting almost nothing from the massive bank account upon which he sits. They\u2019re like the heirs to a billionaire who refuses to give his children an allowance but still insists on showing up at their parties, holding court and taking credit for everything they\u2019ve ever done. Which brings me back to the whispered prayers of swing-district Republicans, desperately wishing the President would go away this autumn because he\u2019s a danger to the GOP brand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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