President Donald Trump threatened to veto every piece of legislation put forward during the second half of his administration if Democrats flip control of the House or Senate during next month’s midterm elections.
“Well, I think the Republicans are going to win. But if there was, you call it gridlock, what happens is I veto everything,” Trump told reporters Friday morning while speaking on the South Lawn. “And then the Democrats come and they want to make a deal. So we’ll work it out.”
Historical precedent and polling data suggest Democrats are on the cusp of flipping at least the House next month and possibly the Senate, due to public frustration over the Iran war and high costs of living.
So, they will override his veto
Every progressive policy that passes the House and Senate but gets vetoed by trump becomes a reason to vote for a Democratic President in 2028. Trump would almost be doing the Democrats a favor if he vetoed everything. Bluedog Democrats in Congress could vote for all kinds of progressive things with the knowledge they won’t pass into law. They’d be able to score all the political points with their constituency without suffering any fallout from their corporate donors. Imagine if, in the next 2 years, Democrats in Congress pass:
All of these trump would veto, of course, but that leaves the GOP significantly worse off in the next election.
That seems to be dependent on a dramatic misconception of how American politics works.
It seems that only a very small demographic are observing this type of information, and I presume they’re all dem voters anyway.
Everyone will ignore all of this and vote Republican because of the price of eggs or something.
The type to do that are also the type to blame the sitting president and will vote against the president’s party.
Basically if eggs are expensive come 2028 those people will blame the president and therefore the Republicans