by Frank Holmes, reporter
Democrats hardly let President Donald Trump take his hand off the Bible before they started discussions about impeaching him. Rep. Al Green, the cane-wielding Texas Democrat who interrupted President Trump’s speech to Congress, promised last month he would introduce a motion to impeach Trump for a third time.
But if there’s one thing no one has ever said about President Trump, it’s that he’s afraid to fight. Now, the president’s willingness to go to the mat for the American people seems to have caught on with others in his party.
They’re ready to take the war not just into GOP strongholds but deep into blue states like California and New York in order to stop Democrats from winning back control of Congress.
Whichever party wins the White House in a presidential election usually loses the House of Representatives in the midterms. And the last time Democrats controlled the House, they impeached Trump twice.
So, the campaign arm of the Republican Party, known as the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), has announced a plan to drive 26 Democrats out of the House in 2026.
“Vulnerable House Democrats have been hard at work demonstrating they are painfully out of touch with hardworking Americans,” said Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who is chairman of the NRCC.
Impeachment, DEI, or the Green New Deal would only set our country further back.
To stop that, the NRCC has released its list of two-dozen-plus-two Democrats lists congressmen well inside Democratic states like California, Washington, Tim Walz’s Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Maine, among others.
“We’re going to focus very hard on them. The message that we’re going to send to folks in the district is, ‘Do you want change?’ America voted. We’re moving forward. We have a positive, optimistic message,” Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday morning.
The targeted lawmakers represent districts that voted strongly for President Trump last November. That means the GOP has finally hitched its wagon to the increasingly popular, second-term president.
“I know we’re not supposed to be optimistic about the midterms, but I really am,” said Congresswoman McClain.
The Democrats tried to deny they’re in trouble. “The truth is House Republicans are running scared,” said a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). But they may be whistling past the graveyard.
If nothing else, polls show Democrats have significant reason to be pessimistic about the midterm elections. Americans’ view of the Democratic Party has hit a near-record low. An NBC News poll shows only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Democratic Party — the lowest since the end of the Reagan era and Cold War in 1990.
It’s so bad, even the most prominent, well-compensated advisers to the Democratic Party .
“I don’t have a good image of the Democratic Party,” James Carville told NewNation’s Cuomo on Thursday. “When anybody on the identity Left…do me a favor: Beat a Republican, and then I will have respect for you.”
“If you embrace embrace the language of the identity Left, if you said we have a duty to be behind Joe Boden no matter what, and if you said we can’t have a contested primary no matter what, I’m sorry—you have a hat trick of losing.”
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'I Don't Have a Good Image of the Democratic Party' pic.twitter.com/Cij1dw6Zz7— Robert Waloven (@comlabman) March 18, 2025
A majority—52 percent—of Democrats say their party leaders are taking them in the wrong direction, according to a CNN poll released on Sunday.
To make matters worse, Americans’ view of the Democrats is getting worse over time. Twice as many Americans had a “very negative” view of Democrats than a “very positive” one in 2021.
Then Joe Biden became president.
Now, five times more people feel that way—and the DNC’s leaders have given the American people no reason to change their minds.
Egad. More than 5X as many people view the Democratic party as "very negative" than "very positive." pic.twitter.com/S9LJp9JXNt
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 16, 2025
Worse yet for the Democrats, it looks like nothing’s going to change: The CNN survey found 57 percent of Democrats say they want the Democratic Party to make its top priority stopping Donald Trump.
When he first took office eight years ago, only 23 percent of rank-and-file Democratic voters wanted their party to spend all its time trying to shut down the agenda that got President Trump elected.
Before you get too comfortable, don’t forget: Two years after the Democrats reached their record low approval rating in 1990, an ambitious and amoral politician decided to campaign against his old party orthodoxy, running as a “New Democrat” willing to think outside the standard liberal box.
That was Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.
Republicans are betting today’s Democrats won’t learn that lesson, reel in their progressive liberalism, and listen to the American people. They may be right. But fortunes can change quickly in politics.
The GOP hopes they don’t change quickly enough to save these 26 Democrats.
The whole list of Democrats in the crosshairs in 2026 includes:
Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Don Davis, D-N.C.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jared Golden, D-Maine; Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; Adam Gray, D-Calif.; Josh Harder, D-Calif.; Steven Horsford, D-Nev.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Susie Lee, D-Nev.; Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich.; Dave Min, D-Calif.; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Frank Mrvan, D-Ind.; Chris Pappas, D-N.H.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; Nellie Pou, D-N.J.; Josh Riley, D-N.Y.; Darren Soto, D-Fla.; Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.; Emilia Sykes, D-Ohio; Dina Titus, D-Nev.; Derek Tran, D-Calif.; Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M.; Eugene Vindman, D-Va.; and George Whitesides, D-Calif.