SLIM MARGINS President Trump knows he must hold his MAGA coalition together if Republicans are to have any chance of retaining their slim congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections.


“I hope my greatest legacy, when it’s all finished, will be known as a peacemaker and a unifier.” — President Donald Trump


U.S. boots off the ground in Iran, it appeared MAGA’s unity would prevail.


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STRIKES AGAIN . . . Only 15 months remain until the midterm elections. Politi- cal history strongly suggests the party in power is apt to lose seats in U.S. midterms. Considering the minuscule


margins the GOP holds in the House and Senate, its majority is in trouble — unless MAGA can stay united to generate the momentum that enabled the Trump campaign to capture all seven swing states last Novem- ber.


Former Ohio Secretary


of State Ken Blackwell, who chairs AFPI’s election in-


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tegrity initiative, has known Trump for over four decades. He tells Newsmax, “The presi- dent is very much aware that if we don’t maintain the po- litical ‘trifecta’ [control of the House, Senate, and the execu- tive branch] in 2026, the whole thing blows up. “So he has to zig and zag,


bob and weave, and negotiate and transact to keep this gov- erning majority in place.” Blackwell notes that


Trump’s MAGA coalition en- compasses several diverse fac- tions, including: A libertarian wing, repre-


sented by Carlson, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk. Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul often sides with them.


A growing populist wing, particularly in a Rust Belt ravaged by global interests, whose rising strength carried Trump to victory. A movement conservative


wing, led by social conserva- tives and activists like Kirk. An establishment Repub-


lican wing that encompasses longtime political figures like Graham and former Sen. Mar- co Rubio, who wisely hopped aboard the Trump bandwagon. The fault lines between the


MAGA groups have become much clearer in the foreign policy realm. While Trump has long sounded isolationist notes, he is anything but. In his former administra-


tion and the current, he’s been poking his nose, in a posi- tive way, across the world’s hot spots: Venezuela, Korea, Taiwan, India and Pakistan, Iran, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine and Russia. If it’s in the news, Trump’s there.


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