Trump’s Republican lackeys are living a 'nightmare' right now: report

Intelligencer columnist Ed Kilgore says Republicans derived a benefit from chaining themselves to President Donald Trump over the last decade, but they are definitely not the party to envy anymore. If anything, they're living "a total nightmare." “[The year] 2026 has been even worse for [Sen.] John Thune (R-S.D.) and his GOP colleagues,” wrote Kilgore . “Senate Republicans began the year absolutely secure in their majority, thanks to a very favorable landscape and insane amounts of money.

Now that majority is in real peril. The congressional GOP is totally dependent on Trump, and he seems to be the one Republican in Washington who doesn’t understand that the party can’t win the midterms unless it addresses Americans’ cost-of-living concerns.” Kilgore added that Thune has been insisting tha...