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🌻 Dems Are ‘Bleeding’ Team Trump in This Deep-Red State – and Republicans Are Livid

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Suebsaeng, A. (2026, October 29). 🌻 Dems Are ‘Bleeding’ Team Trump in This Deep-Red State – and Republicans Are Livid. Zeteo. https://zeteo.com/p/dems-are-bleeding-team-trump-in-this

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Zeteo · collected 2026-10-29 · by Asawin Suebsaeng commentary

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The article discusses how Democrats are unexpectedly gaining ground against Republicans in traditionally conservative Kansas during the 2026 midterm elections. This development has angered Republican operatives and politicians who blame President Donald Trump's influence for their potential losses. The race between incumbent Senator Roger Marshall, a Trump-backed Republican, and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton is particularly close, with some Democrats predicting they might flip the historically red state’s Senate seat.
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As of 2026-10-29, Democrats are expected to make significant gains against Republicans in Kansas, a traditionally deep-red state, according to analysis by Zeteo. This shift is attributed to Republican politicians' strong alignment with President Donald Trump's controversial agenda, which includes unpopular policies such as war, economic damage, corruption, and violent incidents. The focus on Kansas highlights growing dissatisfaction among conservative voters with the GOP's adherence to Trump's leadership. Republicans are particularly concerned about the implications for national politics ahead of the midterm elections, potentially leading to internal conflicts within the party over future strategies.

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16 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 It took 10 long, brutal days, but it appears that Ohio’s GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is crying uncle: His campaign will stop airing his “rapist protector mom” ad.
🔮 The knives will be out for top Trump advisers who have, for different reasons, made bitter and sometimes jealous enemies within their party structure.
🔮 This source adds that some business owners and event hosts have explicitly told them that they do not want the horrendous publicity – or angry phone calls, or social-media attacks, or customer complaints – that they would get for hosting Ramaswamy’s campaign tour at this juncture.
🔮 In today’s ’First Draft,’ we’ll get right into why Donald Trump keeps obsessing about Senator Jon Husted’s bottom, even when he’s not physically campaigning in Husted’s state – and yes, our reporting shows there’s a deeper reason for this that you may not have considered.
🔮 In today’s ‘First Draft,’ we’ll get into how that happened, why Republicans think their latest attack on Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton could “backfire” immensely, and why you really need to be paying attention, even if you don’t live in Ohio.
🔮 For instance, we keep hearing about how numerous Republican operatives, Trumpworld figures, and conservatives on Capitol Hill absolutely despise the notably smug James Blair, a former deputy chief of staff who now has the likely impossible task of somehow salvaging the midterms for Trump, and wouldn’t mind cynically shoveling blame on him for the heavy losses, should they occur in the House and Senate.
🔮 Perhaps the most grisly example of Hegseth out-Trumping the sadistically maximalist president took place over the past week, after the Trump-Vance administration announced it would stage not only the first official public execution in the U.S. in nearly a century, but the first one streamed live on the internet.
🔮 It is also, I would argue, a meaningful sign of just how badly screwed the Republican Party and its MAGA overlords likely are, with election night just over a month away.
🔮 When you talk to people close to President Donald Trump, they will be quick to tell you that he’s mad at the TV again, and he’s mad about Republicans who don’t want to talk about him.
🔮 By now, you may have heard the news that in the Dallas arena where the president and the GOP threw their neo-Confederate party, Team Trump promoted the following Insta pic on the jumbotron, for the entire crowd of federal appointees, Republican lawmakers, Christian-right leaders, MAGA dead-enders, grandmas, grandpas, and younger conservatives to stare at:
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Democratic GOP Kansas Republican Senate

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Kansas GPE · 6× Trump PERSON · 5× Marshall ORG · 3× Republican NORP · 3× Democratic NORP · 2× Donald Trump PERSON · 2× GOP ORG · 2× Senate ORG · 2× Swin PERSON · 1× Zeteo ORG · 1×

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We’ll see what happens on election night, but most signs are now pointing toward stunning losses for the GOP, given that conservative politicians are so inextricably wedded to Trump’s agenda of unpopular war, mindless economic destruction, unfettered corruption, and aberrant bloodshed and lawlessness.
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🔮 The knives will be out for top Trump advisers who have, for different reasons, made bitter and sometimes jealous enemies within their party structure.

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📱 If our emails sometimes get buried in your inbox, we’ve got another way for you to keep up to date: the new Zeteo app. asserted
you → bury → date
It’s Swin again. asserted
It → ’ → ?
In the very last days of the interminable, extremely high-stakes U.S. midterm elections, things are not looking good… if you’re a Republican or President Donald Trump. asserted
you → look → elections
We’ll see what happens on election night, but most signs are now pointing toward stunning losses for the GOP, given that conservative politicians are so inextricably wedded to Trump’s agenda of unpopular war, mindless economic destruction, unfettered corruption, and aberrant bloodshed and lawlessness. asserted
politicians → see → war
It’s hard to pick what GOP lawmakers and operatives are oh-so-very privately steamed about the most, but if you talk to them, up high on that list is one simple, two-syllable word: “Kansas.” asserted
Kansas → ’ → list
In today’s ‘First Draft,’ we’ll dig in on why. asserted
we → dig → why
Plus, Rep. Haley Stevens has an increasingly strange – and awful – way of showing her supposed support for Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate election. asserted
Stevens → have → election
Let’s read in. asserted
’s → let → ?
What’s the Matter with Kansas? asserted
Matter → ’ → Kansas
If the Republican Party savagely eats it in the 2026 midterms (especially if it’s a defeat so humiliating it proves too hard to steal), there is going to be a geyser of score-settling and finger-pointing after election night. asserted
it → eat → night
There is all but guaranteed to be a gargantuan sum of anonymous or on-record intra-GOP sniping over who should be scapegoated, with most participants being too cowardly to correctly and publicly blame their god-emperor, Donald Trump. asserted
participants → be → emperor
The knives will be out for top Trump advisers who have, for different reasons, made bitter and sometimes jealous enemies within their party structure. asserted
who → make → structure
Think Susie Wiles, James Blair, MAGA-cogs like that – even if it wasn’t completely their fault. asserted
it → think → that
Another Republican who keeps coming up in these types of discussions is Roger Marshall, a Trump-backed senator from ruby-red, conservative Kansas. asserted
who → keep → Kansas
Marshall is running against pastor and Democrat Adam Hamilton in what has been a shockingly close contest. asserted
what → run → Hamilton
If the Democratic Party flips a Senate seat in Kansas, of all places, it would be as good an indicator as any that the 2026 blue wave is more a blue biblical flood, crashing right into Trump’s authoritarian presidency and his party collaborators. asserted
wave → flip → presidency
A reminder: Trump won Kansas by 16 points in 2024, and the state hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since… 1932! asserted
state → win → 1932
Republican operatives working on competitive races and other key figures in the party whom I’ve spoken to lately are cautiously optimistic (emphasis on the adverb) that Marshall will squeak it out and keep that Kansas seat red. asserted
Marshall → work → seat
Their Democratic counterparts say the same. asserted
counterparts → say → same
But even if Marshall wins, the damage is already done. asserted
damage → win → ?
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