Donald Trump is "worried," according to a former official for the president's first stint in the White House.
Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who has claimed his home was targeted by a break-in shortly after he published a scathing "Anonymous" op-ed about Trump's presidency, wrote an article after Democrats trounced Republicans in electoral races around the country. The piece is called, "Why Trump is worried about last night," and in it the former official argues that "Dems didn’t become 'more socialist' — they tacked toward the center, which is their key to defeating MAGA."
According to Taylor's article, "Last night delivered a message that Donald Trump is surely fretting about this morning. In fact, he even struggled to come up with a response to the Democrats’ election sweep in major races, suggesting feebly on Truth Social that the only reasons Republicans lost were because Trump himself wasn’t on the ballot and because of the shutdown... The latter claim was a shocking admission because he didn’t even bother to blame the Democrats for the government closure."
Taylor went on:
"He’s not processing this well. But there’s a bigger reason. Trump and his political advisors are worried about how the Democrats won."
Pointing to specific Dem wins, he added, "Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey didn’t win the governor’s races by shifting left, parroting social media activists, or embracing progressive litmus tests. They won because they claimed the political center, and voters rewarded it in a moment when they’re very nervous about the chaos coming out of the White House and Washington."
Taylor also addressed the New York mayoral race.
"Meanwhile in New York City, Zohran Mamdani’s victory revealed a paradox. He won with the lowest margins of any New York City mayor this century with a meager 50 percent. It was far from a resounding win in a place where some of his recent predecessors have won with 65 - 75 percent of the vote. One of the most gifted progressive communicators in the country could barely clear a bar that mainstream Democrats have routinely vaulted in the nation’s bluest metropolis," he wrote. "Taken together, the night’s results did not signal some progressive wave. It was a moderate wave. The victories signaled that the Democratic Party is largely re-centering itself around stability and governance, not ideological performance. And that rightfully has the White House feeling anxious."