# Trump finds a new excuse for the GOP’s expected 2026 midterm losses: messaging, not results

https://mins.news/en/item/84178

- CNN, 2026-10-02 22:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/politics/trump-gop-midterm-messaging?Date=20261002&Profile=CNN

> CNN’s Aaron Blake writes that President Donald Trump has settled on a new explanation for the Republican Party’s expected losses in the 2026 midterm elections: the problem is the messaging, not the results.

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