Trump Blurts Out Surprise Admission about Midterms as GOP Panic Erupts

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

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“I don’t care about the midterms,” Donald Trump admitted during a monologue about his Iran war. In addition to candidly declaring that he doesn’t care that his policies are badly imperiling his GOP colleagues, Trump also suggested that the GOP nomination of MAGA whackjob Ken Paxton in Texas—which Trump engineered—was a major accomplishment. This accidentally showed that Trump is still under the delusion that he and MAGA are popular. Yet this comes as The New York Times reports that Republicans are freshly “alarmed,” with some admitting that Trump is putting them in severe danger. We talked to New Republic contributing editor Felipe De La Hoz, who’s been arguing that Trump’s historic unpopularity gives Democrats new openings. We discuss how Texas is now winnable for Democrats, why Republicans are accepting Trump’s destruction of their midterm hopes, and what Democrats can do to capitalize on Trump’s travails. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:29.9	Donald Trump just uttered an extraordinary quote.
0:34.0	He said this, I don't care about the midterms.
0:39.9	But it actually got more revealing from there on out. In discussing what just happened in Texas, where the MAGA extremist will now be the GOP nominee in the Senate race, Trump accidentally
0:45.8	revealed that he's still under the delusion that he and MAGA are popular. Meanwhile, three different
0:52.0	indicators in the polling contain terrible news for Trump and the GOP.
0:56.8	And new reports say that Republicans are growing more alarmed about the midterms.
1:01.6	Some of them are plainly afraid to say so.
1:04.6	So how much longer can they stand by while Trump drags them down?
1:09.6	We're discussing all this with New Republic contributing editor Felipe de laos, who's been arguing
1:14.7	that Trump's historic unpopularity gives Democrats all kinds of new openings.
1:19.9	Felipe, nice to have you on.
1:22.0	Always good to be here, Greg.
1:23.8	So let's start with what Trump said at his cabinet meeting.
1:26.7	He was talking about how he's winning a
1:28.4	huge victory over Iran, which he isn't. That aside, here's how he characterized that.
1:35.0	They thought they were going to outweigh me, you know, we'll outweigh him. He's got the midterms.
1:39.1	I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was the prelude to the
1:43.0	midterms. People understand it.
1:45.0	They know that very simple, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
1:49.0	I'm doing that for the world.
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