GOP’s future in doubt as lame-duck Trump fails to 'trick voters into living his delusions'
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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With Trump's unpopularity soaring, Democrats have a major chance to grab new voters and disrupt the GOP's power, according to Ross Barkan's analysis for Intelligencer, which credits the shift to Trump doing "almost nothing... that Americans like."
To overcome the current map's GOP edge, Democrats must "start to think much harder about winning over the voters who are drifting away from Trump but have no idea what the Democrats are for," with options including candidates like Mark Osborne, who is running as an independent in Nebraska with "decent" odds of success.
By leaning into economic populism and meeting rural voters "where they are," Democrats may be able to win in hostile territory, with Trump's continually unpopular leadership, including a 40% approval rating, helping the party's midterm odds, as noted by Barkan, who wrote that "there is almost nothing, right now, coming from this administration that Americans like."
