LIZ PEEK: Trump must get his mojo back — or kiss 2026 goodbye

President Donald Trump needs to regain his momentum and support power of the House successful 2026. Otherwise, the Trump docket is finished. GOP priorities specified arsenic ending birthright citizenship, enacting elector ID laws and changing the census to exclude amerciable immigrants volition vanish on with Republicans’ House majority.

The president has astir 8 months to reverse his slipping canvass numbers and triumph backmost the voters who elected him past year. If helium fails, helium could walk the adjacent 2 years warring different Democratic impeachment effort.

Remember, it was lone a fewer weeks agone that governmental pundits were penning obituaries for the Democratic Party. The party’s support ratings were successful the gutter, with favorability toward Democrats astatine its lowest constituent successful 30 years. Democrats lacked leadership, and adjacent a period earlier voters went to the polls successful New Jersey and Virginia, candidates successful those states had failed to find a winning message. The lone happening they had was hatred for Donald Trump. 

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All that changed astir overnight successful November arsenic voters flocked to the polls and backed Democrats, venting their choler implicit ongoing inflation, the longest authorities shutdown successful U.S. past and —yes — President Trump.

In precocious October, Polymarket showed 57% of participants betting that Democrats would instrumentality implicit the House. Today, 72% expect Republicans to suffer it. 

Things tin alteration rapidly successful politics.

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To win successful the midterms, President Trump needs to spark a booming economy, little the outgo of surviving and contiguous a coherent migration policy.

Kevin Hassett, caput of Trump’s National Economic Council, told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo implicit the play that 2026 was shaping up to beryllium a "blockbuster year." He’s apt right. The flood of investments coming into the state acknowledgment to Trump’s commercialized deals is conscionable opening to amusement up, portion taxation changes contained successful the Big, Beautiful Bill person created adjacent much incentives for companies to grow successful the U.S.

Dozens of companies, including BioMADE, Genentech, L3Harris, Merck, AstraZeneca and Amkor Technology person breached crushed connected caller manufacturing facilities successful caller months. The fig of radical employed successful nonresidential operation is rising. Though AI whitethorn dilatory immoderate sectors, the enlargement of companies and countries into the U.S. volition boost hiring, reassure consumers and enactment dependable spending. Also lifting user sentiment volition beryllium taxation cuts coming adjacent year. 

Meanwhile, contempt complaints astir the interaction of tariffs, there’s increasing grounds that Trump’s higher import duties are not stifling commercialized oregon growth. The Wall Street Journal precocious published an investigation of CEO mentions of tariffs successful quarterly net calls, concluding, "Executives are starting to chill retired astir tariffs aft a twelvemonth of anxiety." 

IT’S NOT JUST THE ECONOMY — THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS BEAT THE GOP ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Hassett predicted the Democrat-led authorities shutdown volition chopped fourth-quarter maturation astir successful fractional — from the adjacent 4% scope of the past six months to astir 1.5% to 2%. Maybe that’s wherefore Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insisted connected keeping the authorities closed. Democrats cognize a beardown system doesn’t service their governmental interests.

Focusing connected affordability, the president is rolling backmost duties connected circumstantial items specified arsenic java and bananas, whose prices person surged. Overall ostentation stands conscionable beneath 3%. The large challenges for consumers — and for President Trump — stay wellness security and lodging costs.

Obamacare enrollees look crisp premium increases owed to the expiration of other subsidies created nether the American Rescue Act. Politico reports the president is considering a one- oregon two-year hold of those payments, constricted to radical earning up to 700% of the national poorness line. If accurate, this seems a tenable compromise that would springiness the GOP clip to prosecute different fixes to the flawed program. 

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Obamacare serves lone astir 7% of Americans. Since the idiosyncratic mandate was repealed, the programme covers a smaller and sicker colonisation than expected, driving up costs. Some GOP-backed reforms—such arsenic allowing insurers to vie crossed authorities lines — were ne'er implemented. 

It’s clip to revive those ideas, including existent terms transparency truthful patients tin examination shop, and tort betterment to curb unnecessary tests and procedures done chiefly to debar lawsuits.

The GOP failed to repeal Obamacare; present it indispensable hole what’s broken.

Housing, too, is simply a hot-button issue, particularly for younger voters. High owe rates person discouraged buyers and kept proviso choky arsenic homeowners with debased rates garbage to sell. The Fed seems poised to little involvement rates adjacent month, and erstwhile the president’s caller Fed seat is confirmed, Trump volition apt propulsion for continued complaint cuts. Lower owe rates would unlock frozen lodging inventory and marque homes much affordable.

Trump could besides chopped tariffs connected lumber and homebuilding materials similar room cabinets to assistance trim operation costs.

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On immigration, the president has accomplished overmuch by tightening borderline information and encouraging millions to self-deport. But his assertive deportations and ICE raids person alarmed galore Americans. What was erstwhile a winning contented has go a liability, arsenic his support ratings connected migration person fallen from affirmative to negative. Hispanics, successful particular, are unhappy with Trump’s deportation strategy. 

President Trump should denote that ICE volition absorption solely connected arresting and deporting transgression aliens. He should besides revisit fashionable proposals from his archetypal term, specified arsenic adopting a merit-based strategy similar Canada’s, ending the diverseness visa lottery and limiting concatenation migration. The president needs to punctual voters that Republicans enactment legal immigration but reason amerciable migration — conscionable similar astir Americans.

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There is simply a wide way to triumph adjacent November. 

Trump can, and must, find it.

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