Transcript: Unwell Trump Bizarrely Blurts Out Secret Plan to Rig 2026

Will the electorate in 2026 be as good as it is in 2025? I think we don’t know that. I think it’s possible. But what we do know is that, historically, midterm elections are very bad for incumbent presidents, and we have a huge outpouring of support and people really angry at the direction of the country.

So if we can recruit candidates that are willing to talk about costs, willing to sort of follow this playbook, we should be in a decent position. And it’s really possible that these Republicans absolutely overreach. And if I were a congressional Republican, this is something I’d be calling my state legislature about right now—if they were considering changing up my seat.

Sargent: Right, that’s very interesting, in fact. So these results—this overwhelming Democratic victory—are going to make Republican Congress people who have safe seats say to themselves, shit, maybe if you redistrict my state, it could really put me on a target list all of a sudden, and they’re not going to want that. So we’ll have to watch that going forward.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t look like Trump will be able to get the filibuster and get his voter-suppression stuff passed, but Republicans will have some extra seats—and yet some of that could backfire.