A. Williams

Trump had the biggest opening any president has had in decades. I THINK HE JUST BLEW IT. He came in with EVERYTHING:
-The House
-The Senate
-The popular vote
-All 7 swing states
-A 6-3 Supreme Court Democrats were so rattled by their crushing defeat that they voted for the Laken Riley Act within weeks. The "vibe shift" was real. He could have locked in a generation of wins. Instead, a lot of poor decisions were made & this should be a wake up call. I hear it from extremely far-right people that they’re sick of “Trump’s antics.” He doesn't like legislating or going back and forth with Congress. His big wins came down to one massive tax bill (that polled badly & added trillions to the deficit), money for immigration enforcement, & a crypto bill. He introduced massive deficits. Tariffs on & off by the week. He declared an open war on the Federal Reserve. Unnecessarily attacked Jerome Powell for months & tried to fire the Fed governor. The "Liberation Day" tariffs were a disaster. They sent markets into an insane tailspin. The Supreme Court ended up ruling against some of them. Gas ended up going over $4.50 a gallon for the first time since 2022 (the most expensive Labor Day on record). HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO BE THE GUY TO END WARS & IRAN IS STILL ON GOING WITH TUCKER CITING MANY “CREDIBLE SOURCES” TALKING ABOUT USING NUKES?! Immigration was the clear issue for voters based on initial exit polls. 
He went too aggressive on the memes, the public humiliation, and the public nature of it all. He turned immigration, his strongest issue into a liability through optics. Remember, Barack Obama deported MORE people than Trump did in his first term but he did it quietly - cllearly didn’t sit well with the public. The official government channels post memes weekly which lower the stature of the office. It didn’t have to be that way, all the time. 
To make matters worse for him, he’s caused of pardoning his allies with an undercover investigation on how some people have paid for a pardon. The thing that he also promised the world was the Epstein files. But then he fought for months to keep them sealed until Congress forced them out angering the base. Right now, as it stands, Texas may be won by a Democrat. I think the midterms are a result of the totality of major issues that have arisen. 
Trump’s approval hit a record low of 31% in Reuters/Ipsos polling last month. As for us Canadians… He disrespected us for too long. Called us the "51st state." Renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Blew up trade talks over an ad & slapped 50% tariffs on more Canadian goods this summer while threatening 50% on our cars, auto parts and steel on January 1. And all of this to say, despite the loss the Republicans will likely face today, and how different Republicans are from the Conservative Party Of Canada, it won’t stop the Liberals from calling us MAGA to try to gain cheap political points, and it won’t help us with the future of tariffs.