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Polling confirms: There's only one way for Trump to win — and it's not good

Trump’s Weakness Is the Story He Wants to HideThe Real StoryThis piece opens with an accusation of 2026 midterm rigging and then spends most of its time on approval numbers, seat counts, and election math. That is the familiar political fog machine: turn a question of power into a discussion of vibes. The real story is not whether Trump is “popular enough.” It is that a president with collapsing approval has every incentive to interfere with the conditions under which voters can remove him.Power, Not PollsTrump holds the actual institutional power here. He is the incumbent president, the…

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