A senior Trump administration official revealed Tuesday the extent of the GOP’s “intra-party freakout” as the midterm elections draw closer amid the president’s unprecedented unpopularity among Americans, telling Zeteo that the panic is far worse than what’s seen in public.
“The bedwetting is making the whole bedroom damp,” the senior Trump official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng also paraphrased additional comments from the senior Trump official, writing they also said “that the intra-party freakout is now worse than what you see in public view.”
President Donald Trump recently achieved his lowest approval rating of his political career, with a University of Massachusetts Amherst poll revealing that “only 33% of Americans” approved of his job performance. Just days later, another collection of polls showed that Trump's net approval had sunk to -21.4, the lowest of any past president at the same point in their term since the 1940s.
Trump has also seen a “complete collapse” in support from non-college educated white voters, a voter bloc that has historically been his strongest voter base. Analysts have also predicted that the president’s cratering support would significantly hurt Republicans this November as Trump’s brand becomes “toxic” at the ballot box.
“In their hopes of forestalling a historic midterms implosion, the GOP elite is praying (sometimes literally) for cheaper gas,” Suebsaeng wrote in Zeteo’s report.