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Vox writer Astead Herndon says with all the coverage the press gives the Democratic Party over its internecine battle between the centrist and progressive wing, you might have missed that President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are going down in screaming flames this year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocratic infighting is distracting from the top story of the midterms,\u201d said Herndon. \u201cHere\u2019s something you wouldn\u2019t know from most of the coverage of this year\u2019s midterm elections: The biggest electability problem belongs to President Donald Trump and the Republicans.<\/p>\n

GOP candidates in the midterm elections currently have to contend with an avalanche of bad news, including a woefully unpopular president leading an unpopular war, $4 gas \u2014 if not higher by November. The administration has also kicked its own base like an ant mound over tariffs, then the release of the Epstein files, and now a deteriorating war of Trump\u2019s own creation.<\/p>\n

And the party has followed Trump into backing scandal-plagued candidates in the general election, including Texas Senatorial candidate Ken Paxton and Senatorial factory accident Max Miller in Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo top things off, more than six years after the January 6 insurrection, any Republican who wants to remain in the president\u2019s good standing cannot acknowledge the fact that he lost the 2020 election, an issue that helped cost the party major races in 2022 and could still bite in 2026,\u201d said Herndon. \u201cTom Tiffany, the Republican Senate candidate in Wisconsin, has stood side by side with Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump is doing nothing to help GOP candidates shake off this anchor with his pardons for January 6 defendants and his crusade to create a government slush fund for payouts to J-6 rioters to keep the news nice and fresh for voters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYet still, the focus of Politics World (and to some extent this Substack) has often been the story that\u2019s more dynamic: the changing nature of the Democratic Party. In doing so, \u2018electability\u2019 has become synonymous with the ideological battle between moderates and progressives, and specifically the idea that left-wing candidates \u2026 are underperformers,\u201d said Herndon.<\/p>\n

By overfocusing on the alleged unelectability of the progressive left, Herndon said the press is underplaying the massive rift between Trump\u2019s policies and behavior and the voting public — which is the real story of the midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI voted for him with his promises to the American people. And I think he\u2019s let us down,\u201d one Allentown, PA., voter told Herndon in a recent interview. When asked about Trump\u2019s \u201cbiggest broken promise,\u201d that same voter said: \u201cThe prices \u2026 it\u2019s skyrocketed. \u2026 My main objective is a roof over our head, pay our bills, and then what\u2019s left? There\u2019s hardly anything left.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo consider this a coverage corrective,\u201d said Herndon. \u201cI have tracked the changes within the Democratic Party in our election coverage (and will continue to!), but I think this portion of the calendar requires us to update our language. The most toxic and consequential bromance in politics isn\u2019t between a mayor and a Twitch streamer \u2014 it\u2019s between the president and the party he\u2019s reshaped in his image.\u201d<\/p>\n

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