{"id":79517,"date":"2026-10-04T06:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/trump-sets-off-on-midterm-blitz-are-his-trademark-rallies-a-liability-for-republicans\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T06:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:54:53","slug":"trump-sets-off-on-midterm-blitz-are-his-trademark-rallies-a-liability-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/trump-sets-off-on-midterm-blitz-are-his-trademark-rallies-a-liability-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sets off on midterm blitz \u2013 are his trademark rallies a liability for Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rallies have been mainstay of president\u2019s brand but even some in his own party fear voters are sick of the sight of him<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet your asses in that car.\u201d That was Donald Trump\u2019s order, he later recalled, to his motorcade after foul weather grounded Air Force One in Texas on Thursday. The 85-mile dash to Oklahoma <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6126278-trump-drives-texas-oklahoma-100-mph\/\">at nearly 100mph<\/a> was proof that nothing can keep Trump from a Trump rally.<\/p>\n<p>Which might not be the good news for Republicans it once was. As the US president embarked on a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-vance-campaigning-republicans-oklahoma-texas-florida-b686e72598df56656bdcae3270799d65\">32-day campaign blitz<\/a> aimed at helping them defend narrow congressional majorities in next month\u2019s midterms, some fear that he is driving them towards an electoral wipeout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/04\/trump-midterm-rallies-campaign-republicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rallies have been mainstay of president\u2019s brand but even some in his own party fear voters are sick of the sight of him \u201cGet your asses in that car.\u201d That was Donald Trump\u2019s order, he later recalled, to his motorcade after foul weather grounded Air Force One in Texas on Thursday. The 85-mile dash to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump sets off on midterm blitz \u2013 are his trademark rallies a liability for Republicans?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/trump-sets-off-on-midterm-blitz-are-his-trademark-rallies-a-liability-for-republicans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump sets off on midterm blitz \u2013 are his trademark rallies a liability for Republicans?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}