‘It would be the end of the Trump presidency’House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) did not mince words mere minutes after Trump’s State of the Union address. “If we lose the midterms, heaven forbid, it would be the end of the Trump presidency in a real effect,” Johnson said during an interview with Newsmax. “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” the president said in January. Trump was largely successful at getting his Cabinet confirmed early in his second term, relying on a group of willing Senate Republicans — and some Democrats — to build his team. Then there is Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the most vulnerable Republican senator in the nation this year, facing reelection in a state Trump lost by 7 percentage points in 2024.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2026 20:01 UTC