A Playbook for Defeating MAGA
“What I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. In the meantime, the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention this week—headlined, of course, by Trump—has several Republican candidates sitting it out, probably because they pay attention to polls. The war in Iran, tariffs, and high gas prices have pushed his popularity rating down to about 35 percent, and even some of the MAGA faithful have been complaining.
- ▪“What I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot.
- ▪In the meantime, the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention this week—headlined, of course, by Trump—has several Republican candidates sitting it out, probably because they pay attention to polls.
- ▪The war in Iran, tariffs, and high gas prices have pushed his popularity rating down to about 35 percent, and even some of the MAGA faithful have been complaining.
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PodcastsA Playbook for Defeating MAGAThe Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell, the author of How to Eat an Elephant, on what voters want to hearBy Hanna RosinRoberto Schmidt / GettySeptember 10, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0030:04Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsDonald Trump continues to insist that he is popular on the eve of an important election, even though everyone else knows he is not. “What I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just come and vote. It’s so important,” he said recently. In the meantime, the GOP’s first-ever midterm convention this week—headlined, of course, by Trump—has several Republican candidates sitting it out, probably because they pay attention to polls.
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