'Everything's falling apart': GOP pollster panics as Trump numbers 'start tanking'
The lead pollster of the conservative Rasmussen organization predicted that Republicans would continue to underperform throughout the midterm elections because President Donald Trump failed to deliver on his campaign promises.
During a Thursday interview with Steve Bannon, pollster Mark Mitchell said, "Republicans are going to lose because they don't understand politics."
"People under 50 don't really care about conservatism," he explained. "The problem is that all these values have basically failed America."
"The schools suck. Like everything's falling apart," he continued. "The numbers are just absolutely abysmal. So something like the music finally stopped is basically where we're at. And you have the Republican Party that's just like, well, you know, they'll be fine just voting for us because nobody likes socialism. Well, we're getting to the point where people are considering socialism."
According to Mitchell, Trump had "the perfect platform" but failed to follow through after being elected.
"All he had to do was come in and literally just reform government and smash the oligarchy," he remarked. "And he's not going to. And so all the young people, all these people like the Trump voters under 40, they are not conservative at all."
"We have daily tracking on Trump," he noted. "So what happened is about three weeks into this [government shutdown] when Donald Trump's flying around the world talking to dignitaries and we're building the east wing of the White House and now food stamps are going to get defunded and we're walking into an election, all of the sudden his number started tanking."
"And it was very clear that in my opinion, the Republicans had no plan, and everybody went on the internet and everyone was ripping their faces off."
Mitchell argued that Democratic wins in recent elections reflected the new political reality.
"Democrats are excited to go vote because they hate Trump, and that motivates them," he said. "On the right, unfortunately, what motivates them is smashing the oligarchy and burning the government down. And the right is not doing that."
"We got 355 days to an election and the Republicans are going to lose this one," he added. "They are just going to lose it. It looked like their plan was a gerrymandering war of attrition that they're now appearing to lose."
"And J.D. Vance polls really well. But, you know, 2028, this time we mean it, is not a good campaign slogan."