# House Republican: ‘Trump is dragging the party down’

https://mins.news/en/video/97002

- CNN, 2026-10-12 19:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a953Npa54iQ

> With three weeks until November, the Republican midterm campaign has become a damage-control effort. Party officials are scrambling to protect once-safe seats they fear could cost them control of Congress, shifting resources toward traditionally Republican districts and states and away from Democratic areas where they had hoped to expand.

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