In a CNN interview on Sunday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) boasted that the Democrats “will take back control of the House of Representatives” in the 2026 midterm election. History shows that his prediction is likely to occur. As noted by John Woolley in the American Presidency Project, “In the 22 midterm elections from 1934 -2018, the President’s party has averaged a loss of 28 House seats and four Senate seats.”
In the 2022 midterm election, Republicans did not meet this historical average. The GOP lost one Senate seat, and managed an anemic gain of only ten seats in the House, but it was enough to take control of the lower chamber.
Currently, the Republicans have a very slim majority in the House, with only 220 seats. In recent months, three congressional Democrats have died, necessitating special elections. If Democrats win those races, as expected, their party will need to gain three seats in the upcoming midterm election to take control of the House.
If Democrats regain control, what can the American people expect from this political party? U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) made it clear in an MSNBC interview. She stated, “we will investigate…whether or not this president himself has violated the Emoluments Clause.”
She also vowed to investigate “all these business deals that they have going on.” Crockett claimed that the Trump family was “raking in” huge sums of money on projects such as “the next golf resort that they’re setting up in Qatar,” and a “crypto scam.”
Crockett promised there would be “no shortage of things” for Democrats to investigate and “determine whether or not there have been not only violations of the law, but definitely violations of our Constitution as a whole.”
Therefore, Democratic leaders, who perpetrated innumerable lies about the declining health of President Joe Biden and ignored his blatant corruption and the obvious graft of his son Hunter and other family members, will become watchdogs for the American people when they regain control of the House of Representatives. How reassuring!
There is no doubt that if Democrats assume control of the House of Representatives again, they will move to impeach President Trump a third time. This is because Democrats offer nothing but Trump hatred.
Democrats have no plans on how to improve the lives of the American people. The Democrats were perfectly content to allow Biden to destroy our economy, our military, our international reputation, and our border security during his disastrous term in office.
Democrats helped Biden pass his reckless legislative agenda which plunged the country into economic chaos and added $8.4 trillion to the national debt, surpassing the $7.8 trillion added during the first Trump term and marking the highest debt total of any President in American history.
The playbook has been outlined by Jeffries, who said the Democrats will “respond to what Trump and the administration has endeavored to do” Their agenda will be investigation and impeachment, nothing of any benefit to average Americans.
Since the President’s debut on the political stage in 2015, Democrats have suffered from a severe case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Sadly, that has not changed and is only intensifying.
For example, on Saturday, far-left Governor of Minnesota and former Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz told South Carolina Democrats at their convention that the party needed to be “meaner” and to “bully” Trump. He said, “We are defined as anti-Trump, and you’re…right, you’re…right, we are anti-Trump.”
Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) also spoke at the convention and echoed Walz’s criticism of Trump. He said, “We can, and we must condemn Donald Trump’s reckless actions.”
The mainstream media should, but will not, ask Democrats like Governor Moore what is so “reckless” about the Trump agenda of securing the border, rebuilding the military, pledging to enact a “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, significantly lowering inflation and gas prices, correcting unbalanced and anti-American trade deals and trying to end wars that started during the last administration?
All their endless Trump bashing is not impressing the American people. In a new CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, only 16% of the American people view Democrats as a “party with strong leaders,” while just 25% of respondents believe Democrats are a “party of change.” In addition, merely 19% believe the Democrats are a “party that gets things done.”
Democrats are in such disarray that another new poll shows the leading candidate for their 2028 presidential nomination is the failed former South Bend, Indiana Mayor, and Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. He leads all potential rivals with the support of 31.5% of respondents, followed by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) at 19.4% and former Vice President Kamala Harris at 16.6%.
It is a huge embarrassment for Harris to be losing to a lightweight like Buttigieg and a radical leftist “squad” member like AOC, who had none of her bills become law in the last congress and served in zero leadership positions.
AOC’s ineffectiveness does not seem to matter to young Democratic voters, 18 to 29 years old, who gave her a net favorability rating of 60 points in a recent Yale University survey. According to leftwing pollster and political analyst Nate Silver, AOC will be the candidate “to lead Democrats into the next presidential cycle.”
Thus, in 2025, Democrats are offering Trump bashing, radicalism and lies, such as on issues of Biden’s health. One of Democratic Party’s elder statesmen, and our nation’s 42nd President, Bill Clinton, just lied about Biden in a CBS interview.
He ludicrously claimed that Biden was “always on top of his briefs.” Then, he was asked whether he ever noticed a “cognitive decline.” Implausibly, Clinton said “No. I didn’t know anything about any of this…I saw President Biden not very long ago, and I thought he was in good shape.”
Really? Any American who saw Biden during his term as President knows very well, he can be called many things, but he was never “in good shape.”
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com
