‘Super-lame duck’ Trump’s 2028 problem could start the minute polls close: report
President Donald Trump could see his political power drain away the moment midterm ballots are counted next week, according to an MS NOW analysis that signals the Trump era may be nearing its end. Election forecaster Nate Silver laid out the stakes on Ezra Klein’s New York Times podcast, saying "he’ll still be president for two more years, but the minute the election, the votes, are counted … the 2028 election campaign begins, and if Trump has a bad night, as polls show, then he’s a super-lame duck.” Silver compared Trump’s position to that of George W. Bush after Republicans were routed in the 2006 midterms, and said the map already looks like “a different regime.” “Kansas is competitive, Texas is competitive,” Silver said. Veteran election analyst Charlie Cook called the contest “a unicorn election,” unlike any of the 22 he has covered. The voters in play aren’t suburban independents…