Gruters told the Dallas Morning News <\/a>earlier this summer.<\/p>\n\u200bWhile Paxton is struggling to keep up with Talarico’s\u00a0fundraising, it’s a much different story for the RNC. Republicans had more than $129 million in their bank account as of July 1 compared to less than $20 million that the Democratic National Committee was holding.<\/p>\n
\u200bA recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling now allows the national parties to coordinate directly with candidates running for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, something they were barred from doing in the past.<\/p>\n
\u200bDemocrats have not won a Senate seat in Texas since 1988. With Democrats needing to flip four Republican held seats to retake the majority in the Senate, Talarico has emerged as one of the party\u2019s surprise pickup opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u201cWe want to win that race,\u201d Trump said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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\u200bBut it\u2019s not just the Senate race. Trump returns to Texas at a time when other Republican U.S. House candidates in Texas are struggling especially in South Texas. Trump won much of South Texas in 2024, but this year, Republicans are at risk of losing three seats they thought they could win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u200bFor over a year, Trump has been making moves to avoid a repeat of 2018. During his first midterm election as president that year, Republicans lost 41 seats in the House, flipping its control to Democrats.<\/p>\n
\u200bIf anything close to that happens this year, with Republicans clinging to a five-seat majority in the House, Trump\u2019s final two years in the White House will be a nightmare, as Democrats launch investigations and impeachment hearings and grind the president\u2019s agenda to a halt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But stopping that from happening could get more challenging as Trump’s approval ratings have slid amid rising gas prices since he launched military strikes on Iran. Plus persistent affordability concerns among voters has become a key piece to nearly every Democrats campaign going into the midterms.<\/p>\n
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\u200bDespite everything Trump has tried to do to save the midterm elections, Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Trump can\u2019t defy a history where GOP presidents on average have lost 22 seats in Congress in midterm elections dating back to the 1970s.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u201cIt is a formula for a very unpleasant midterm for the GOP,\u201d Sabato said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-420031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}