Trump’s biggest midterm problem is that he fires up everyone — including Democrats: Byron York

Published June 24, 2026 9:33am ET



What Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York calls the “Trump effect” could determine the outcome of the midterm elections, for better or for worse.

“Almost everything in the past eight years can be described in terms of Donald Trump, and I think that this Democratic turnout increase is a Trump effect,” York said on Fox News’s The Will Cain Show on Tuesday.

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