Democrats just handed Republicans a loaded weapon for the midterms — they won’t pull the trigger

Published October 9, 2026 9:00am ET



The Democrats just handed the GOP a loaded weapon heading into November, and some Republicans still have not pulled the trigger.

A new poll from the president’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, conducted across the 37 battleground districts rated as toss-up, lean Republican, or lean Democrat by the Cook Political Report, tells you everything you need to know. When voters in those districts learned that a Democratic candidate supported a plan that would force every American off their health coverage and would place them into a single government-run system, the Republican won by 50% to 38%. That is a rout.

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