Trump TERRIFIED as 2026 BLUE WAVE BUILDS BIGGER than 2006!

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[00:00:00]On the night of March 24th, 2026, Donald Trump's own neighborhood voted against him. The state house district that includes Mar-a-Lago, a district Trump won by 11 points [music] just 16 months earlier, flipped to a Democrat who had never run for office a day in her life.

[00:00:18]The Republican candidate had Trump's full personal endorsement. Trump called it on Truth Social the night before, and he still lost. There is one comparison Republican strategists have been hoping that you never make because it involves a year most of them won't say out loud.

[00:00:34]To understand what that number actually means, though, you have to go back to November of 2025 because that is when this wave first became visible. The Mar-a-Lago result didn't [music] come out of nowhere. When Trump began his second term in January of 2025, the conventional wisdom was that Democrats had no map. They had just lost the presidency. Their brand was pretty damaged. The generic congressional ballot was 48 according to Marist polling conducted with NPR and PBS [music] News. So, that it was evenly split. There was really no advantage. That was November of 2024.

[00:01:10]Then came November 2025. The same Marist poll found that 55% of registered voters would back a Democrat congressional candidate. 41% would back a Republican.

[00:01:22]In 12 months, that was a 14-point swing.

[00:01:25]Among independent voters specifically, Democrats led 61% to 28%. That's a 33-point gap. Marist called it the first time in more than 3 years that Democrats had a notable advantage on the generic congressional ballot. Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor's race by a larger-than-expected margin that same month. Democrats swept state legislative races across the country. And the special elections running throughout 2025 had been documenting the same signal in real time. Democrats were outperforming their 2024 presidential baseline in 19 consecutive special elections by an average of 11.6 points.

[00:02:08]In Iowa, a Democrat won a state Senate district Trump had carried by 25 points just 2 months earlier. This is not how losing parties behave. A 14-point swing in a single year, sustained across multiple states, multiple elections, and multiple polling organizations time, that's not a trend. To me, that's a signal. But, what was happening inside the Republican Party itself during this same window? I think that's something else entirely. And before we get there, I want to flag the number that I've been building to. It's the one that Republican strategists have been hoping you don't look up because when you see it, the comparison they have been terrified of it stops feeling like history and it kind of starts feeling like a calendar. By January 2026, the story was not just in the polling. It was in the behavior of the Republican senators who were supposed to be Donald Trump's most loyal allies because several of them stopped being loyal.

[00:03:03]Let's go to January 8th, 2026. The Senate votes on a war powers resolution constraining Trump's military action in Venezuela. Every Democrat votes yes and then five Republicans vote yes as well.

[00:03:17]Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Todd Young of Indiana. That's five sitting Republican senators voting against their own president in a chamber where Republicans can only afford to lose three votes before the majority collapses. Trump's response came the same day on Truth Social. He named all five senators and wrote that they should never be elected to office again. That was a sitting American president publicly threatening the re-election of members of his own party because they voted to constrain his war powers. According to the Washington Post reporting that week, 35 Republicans also broke with Trump on a Colorado water project veto. 24 broke with him on tribal legislation. The fractures were multiplying. Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake had written in the Washington Post the previous November, "A migration has begun within the Republican Party. The political climate that once rewarded absolute loyalty to the president is shifting." And then on March 24th, 2026, Emery Gregory, a 40-year-old small business owner who had never run for office before, won the Florida State House district that contains Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump won that district by 11 points 16 months earlier. The previous Republican won it by 19 points. Gregory won by 2.4 points.

[00:04:43]That's a 21-point swing. She became the 29th Democratic candidate to flip a Republican-held state legislative seat since Trump returned to office. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee called it without hedging, "A Trump plus 11 district in his own backyard should not be in play for Democrats." But that week it was. It was also noted that Trump had voted in that election by mail-in ballot, the same method that he has repeatedly publicly called cheating. And that brings us to the piece of this story revealed by the Republican Party's own retirement data.

[00:05:17]The number that makes the 2006 comparison feel less like a warning and more like an understatement. In 2006, George W. Bush was in the second term of a pretty unpopular Middle East war. His approval had cratered, and in November of that year, Democrats took 30 House seats in both chambers of Congress.

[00:05:36]Republicans have spent months insisting that 2026 is different. They keep saying the comparisons are overblown. Here's what the documented record shows.

[00:05:45]According to Time magazine's reporting from May 5th, 2026, at at this exact point in 2006, George W. Bush was 22 points underwater in the ABC Washington Post poll. Donald Trump, according to the same polling organization, was 25 points underwater last month. Trump is running worse than Bush at the worst moment of Bush's presidency. Silver Bulletins presidential approval aggregate, as of May 8th, put Trump's net approval at -18.9.

[00:06:15]That's a second-term record low. Among independent voters, remember, these are the people who decide every competitive race in November, Trump's approval has collapsed to 25%. The Emerson College poll from late April confirmed Democrats leading among likely voters nationally, 50% to 40%. That's a 10-point margin.

[00:06:35]And then, there is the retirement number. In 2006, 17 House Republicans announced that they would not seek re-election. According to Time's reporting in 2026, a record 38 House Republicans have already announced retirement. That's more than double the number who quit in the year that the party lost everything. Veterans of the 2006 cycle told Time, "This environment feels worse than 2006 did." Today, on May 13th, results came in from Georgia's 14th Congressional District. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's old seat. It's a district with an R+19 partisan index that was really never supposed to be competitive. The Democrat running there lost, but the Democrat lost by 11.8 points in a race that should have been a 40-point blowout. NBC News called it the largest Democratic overperformance in a House special election since Trump took office. 25 points better than the 2024 Democratic presidential baseline. That was all in an R+19 district. Even in a race Democrats lost, the wave is visible. So, what does all this tell us? It tells us that Trump's approval among the voters who decide elections has collapsed to 25%. It tells us that 38 members of his own party have already decided that the environment is too hostile to run in.

[00:07:55]That is more than double the number who quit in 2006, the last time Republicans lost both chambers of Congress. It tells us that in 16 months, Democrats have flipped 29 Republican-held seats across the country, including one containing Trump's own home. The voters doing this are not waiting for permission. They showed up in Iowa to flip a district Trump won by 25 points. They showed up in Palm Beach to flip his backyard. They showed up in Georgia today in a district no one thought was in play and cut a 40-point margin in half. Democrats need three House seats to end Republican control of Congress. The numbers say the environment to win them is already here.

[00:08:36]In 2006, it took a president 22 points under water to end The record shows Trump has already exceeded that threshold. The only thing left is November.