President Donald Trump is hitting the road.
The White House is preparing to launch a full-scale Trump campaign blitz across America to help Republicans hold the House and Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles announced.
The president will return to his famous rally tour format that powered his 2024 victory.
Trump is “going to campaign like it’s 2024 again,” Wiles said Monday.
The White House is flipping the traditional midterm playbook, which typically keeps sitting presidents out of congressional races and focuses on local issues.
“Typically, in the midterms, it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House. You localize the election and you keep the federal officials out of it. We’re actually going to turn that on its head and put him on the ballot. Because so many of those low propensity voters are Trump voters,” Wiles said.
The plan comes after Republicans struggled in November 2025 elections, including losses in Virginia and New Jersey, and an underperformance in a special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.
“We saw a week ago Tuesday what happens when he’s not on the ballot and not active,” Wiles said. “He’s going to have a fun next year, but we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too.”
The chief of staff called Trump a “difference-maker” and “turnout machine” for Republican candidates.
“For all these people he helps — he doesn’t help everybody, but for those he does, he’s a difference maker, and he certainly is a turnout machine. So the midterms will be very important to us,” Wiles said.
Trump started raising money for the the 2026 midterms the day after the 2024 election.
“He’s sitting on a huge war chest to help these people. And he’ll use it,” she said. “Nobody can outwork him, so there’s every reason to be confident.”
Republicans currently hold a slim 220-213 majority in the House of Representatives and a 53-47 majority in the Senate. All 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats will be contested in November 2026.
Two Democratic-held Senate seats in Georgia and Michigan are in states Trump won in the 2024 presidential election. Maine is the only Republican-held Senate seat in a state won by Kamala Harris.
The White House is also working to prevent Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst from retiring. Ernst has not announced her 2026 plans.
The White House is also recruiting candidates for key races. Trump recently met with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to discuss the state’s Senate primary for the seat now occupied by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. The White House aims to avoid a messy primary in the critical battleground state.