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The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Can Republicans Hold the House in 2026? Pollster John McLaughlin Breaks Down the Midterm Map
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Lisa Booth
to the Truth with Lisa Booth, where we get to the heart of the issues that matter to you. Today. We're breaking down the Midterms with John McLaughlin. He is the CEO and partner of McLaughlin Associates. He is also a Trump campaign pollster. We're going to dig into where we are today with the midterms and where things could be going. I mean, is this of wave election for the Democrats? Is it already building? What is he seeing now? Where are independents? Are Republicans doing enough to get voters excited and heading out to vote for them? Also, where do Americans stand on the economy? That was the issue. You know, President Trump promised a golden age. Is he delivering? Do Americans think he's delivering? We're going to dig into all of that and more with John McLaughlin. Stay with us. Well, John, it's great to have you back on the show. I've been a little bit worried about the midterms, so looking forward to hearing your perspective.
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John McLaughlin
Okay. Well, yes, we're in the midst of primaries right now that are going on across the country, and there's going to be plenty of primaries between now and over the summer, and there's court rulings about redistricting. So it's going to be a very different midterm. We went through a historic election where President Trump got elected president two years ago, and I think we're going to continue to have to make history to win this election.
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Lisa Booth
How much do you think the redistricting is going to end up impacting the midterms? We still don't know the full effect yet of the Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights act, but some states in the south are already looking to change things up with their maps. How big of a difference do you think it'll make?
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John McLaughlin
I think it's going to make some difference because although it's not a strategy when you're redistricting, it's more process. There's been for the Republican initiatives that they had in Texas, three district in Florida, the Democrats have pushed back in California and Virginia. And Virginia is now still in court because, you know, the wording of the question was biased. So we'll see what happens. But, and New York was, started this whole thing back in 24. Kathy Hochul didn't like the fact that out of their 26 seats, a judge drew fair lines in 2022 for the election and the Republicans won 11 of their 26 seats. So she changed the Supreme Court judge or the Court of Appeals judge, the head judge. They forced out a moderate to get a more socialist judge to run the court. And they drew new lines that cost us four seats in Congress in the 24 election. They cost Brandon Williams his seat up in Syracuse. And they certainly made it easier for Tom Swazi to win New York 3. They certainly heard Anthony Desposito in New York 4. And so, and Hochul, the, you know, she's talking about doing it again. She wants to, you know, she just would love to turn New York state into a one party state where Republicans are the only minority or the, you know, they don't have rights in New York State. So, so it's a, you know, it's, it's good. It's going to be a factor and it's going to go through November. We'll see, but it's a factor. But, you know, by and large, most people will vote on the issues that affect them in their daily lives. That's whether they feel safe and secure and whether they feel that the economy's getting better. Whether, you know, the Democrats make affordability an issue. But every Democrat in the House and Senate voted to raise taxes last year, and the Republicans have not made enough of an issue of that. Where they wanted to raise taxes not just to let the Trump tax cuts lapse, but they wanted taxes to go up by seventeen hundred dollars a person. And that was really bad that, you know, how can you be for affordability when you want to raise taxes on everybody and then give billions to illegal immigrants?
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Lisa Booth
It doesn't, you know, speaking of redistricting, we saw that President Trump swept at least five Republican senators out of office in the Indiana primary election. These are the senators that helped block President Trump's desire for Indiana to redraw the congressional districts. What does that signal to you about his prominence still in the Republican Party?
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John McLaughlin
President Trump has been very loyal to his bases. His base is very loyal to him. All this talk about, you know, like fractures inside the Republican Trump base are not true. And that's what Indiana approved yesterday, as well as Ohio. The Knight endorsed. Indiana was, you know, was Very personal for us, because my firm, we've done the polling for the Indiana Republican state Senate majority since 2010. And when we started, they had 30 out of 50 seats. And last, well, November 24th, we actually went to 40 seats. So they have a super majority where we have 40 out of 50 seats in the Indiana state Senate majority. Because the caucus had generally been very loyal to Republican principles where they lowered taxes or they enacted the most progressive school choice laws. Progressive might be the wrong word, but certainly the most innovative school choice laws where the money follows the student. So we had 40 out of 50 state senate seats. And when President Trump asked them to redistrict, members of the caucus decided not to vote in favor of it. And that was a vote against their base, because their base looks at this way that if we lose control of the House and the Senate, particularly the House, you'll have Democrats voting for higher taxes, you'll have Democrats voting for open borders, you'll have Democrats voting against voter id, you'll have Democrats who are voting to weaken the military. So that boat that they cast about registering last year, we told them in August when we did statewide surveys in Indiana that they would be voting against the people that send to Indianapolis to state Senate. And that would create a problem with Trump supporters, which were the overwhelming majority of Indiana state Senate voters. They, they went and they cast a vote against redistricting. And you know, unfortunately for a lot of these state senators, it was a political mistake where they didn't realize it and they lost their seat yesterday. So now it's going to be harder. Now it's going to be harder to hold those state Senate seats. And you know that. But, but it's, it's the importance of the base. And the bottom line is the November election is a turnout election because we, although President Trump got 77 million votes out of the 156 million that voted nationwide in 2024, midterm elections are about getting out more your supporters in a lower turnout election where you would have, say, go back to 2018, there was all 118 million voters came out. You had in 2022, there was 112 million voters coming out who voted for Congress across the country. And 2025 Trump voters have not been coming out as strongly as the anti Trump voters. And we need to, we need to work on getting our base back out in 2026. So that November, those Trump voters, those 77 million Trump voters come back out as strongly as the anti Trump Harris voters or the, or come out in greater numbers and that they'll come after.
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Lisa Booth
Are you seeing, is this going to be a wave election for, for Democrats?
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John McLaughlin
Not if the Republicans don't play. I mean, if the Republicans play offense, it won't be. We have time. I mean, right now, you've got Chuck Schumann. Chuck Schumer's extremely unpopular. I have a survey back as of last Friday, Chuck schumer has a 27 favorable. 50 unfavorable. You know, everybody talks about Trump's job approval, and you get these fake surveys like the Washington Post, where they do over 2,000 adults and they only have 29% of their sample voted for Trump in the 2024 election. We got 50%. And they're putting out a survey of 29% Trump voters saying he has record low job approval. And it's about the midterms. And it's polluted with 41% of the sample not having voted in the presidential election and being off some Ipsos panel. It's not even a voter list. It's a panel of Ipsos, you know, computer people where they're skewed left of center. So. But going back to that, this is about the issues. Chuck Schumer's not popular. In the same survey I was referring to, Keem Jeffries is only 27. Payroll, 42. Unfair, old. That's our surveys of likely voters who intend to vote this November. Donald Trump and the Republicans need to be hitting them every day. They won't pass voter ID. That's 75% of all voter support. They won't pass proof of citizenship before you can vote, which 84% of all voter support. Instead, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer stood silent when the New York City Council two years ago voted to allow non citizens, which would include illegal immigrants, to vote in New York City elections. I mean, that's, you know, that's what they really want. They want open borders. They want to, they want to, you know, since Trump's securing the border, they want to defund the Immigration and Customs Service so that we can't deport criminal legal aliens. And the same time you want to raise your taxes, and they want to weaken the military, and they want to, they, they want to do things to take care of their political base and to rig the rules on the elections. And we need honest elections, and we need lower taxes. We need a growing economy, and we need secure borders.
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Lisa Booth
So they're more motivated than we are right now. And that's concern for me because, you know, midterms, it's about turning out your base. And obviously they're excited to try to get Republicans out of office. But it doesn't seem like Republican voters are awake, paying attention or nearly as excited.
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John McLaughlin
Well, that's why President Trump wants a midterm convention, so that you can get, it's unusual, be historic, but that's typical for President Trump. But you would get all the Republican candidates for Senate and House to come to a convention where they could sign it onto the same principles. Just like Newt Gingrich did when we took over the House historically, back in 1994 with the contract for America, or like President Trump himself did when we went to Milwaukee in 2024, where he had a, he had a very good platform that was popular, where the majority of voters agree with us. In fact, I tweeted out results from and put on Truth Social too, where we asked voters what's more important to them, protecting the filibuster or passing voter ID. And they said, they said it was passing voter ID 56 to 28among all voters. And, and, and so that's, you know, they're looking at the sign. They're saying, why aren't you, you know, protecting honest elections? Why aren't you? There was another question we had in the poll. Again, these are thousands of likely voters. Do you want to have a reconciliation package where it's just passing spending bills, or do you want to have a reconciliation package where you have voter id, you cut waste, fraud and corruption in the federal budget and you pass, you have a middle class tax cut that will grow the economy. 5726. They don't want the small reconciliation on spending. They want a bigger reconciliation package. And the Republican base is like 80, 90% in favor of this. And you know, the Senate and the House, they need to do these things to put the Democrats on the spot.
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Lisa Booth
Got to take a quick commercial break. More with John on the other side.
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Lisa Booth
One thing I that made me nervous and I'm wondering what you think about this. I was looking at the recent Harvard Harris poll and it had that voters thought that Biden did a better job on the economy than Trump.
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John McLaughlin
Yeah.
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Lisa Booth
And I worry, you know, that was like the issue, right? The golden era and what we're seeing in polling, and I'm interested in what you're seeing in your polling. Americans just don't feel like that's been delivered yet on the economy.
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John McLaughlin
Right. And you're exactly right, because it's like when we ask about Trump's tax cuts on ours, you know, 45% support, 40 oppose. Because they think it's when they, the mainstream media and the legacy media keeps calling it a spending bill, the one big beautiful bill. They don't talk about being tax cuts. They don't acknowledge that most people got tax refunds this year instead of tax increases. When you talk about, for example, on stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons, if you watch President Trump's address to the contrary on April 1, 32% of all voters did. They said that the reason we're in Iran is to stop them from getting nuclear weapons. If they didn't watch it. And they saw their only news reports through the mainstream media, they were split 47, 46 on support for stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And they think it was about regime change or getting oil. And we're not getting a fair shake in the media. And we've got to be far more aggressive as Republicans. Just the way President Trump was in the 2024 campaign, where he was out there with the rallies and social media and going directly to the people rather than going through the media. Because the media doesn't give us a fair shake, most media. And by the way, that's why people listen to your podcast, because they want the truth. They want to know what's going on. Republicans still have time, but they really need to go on offense against the Democrats. There needs to be a strong contrast election. I mean, it can't just be about the Democrats are sending people out there. Well, we need to stop Donald Trump. You know, I mean, stop him from what? Stop him from growing the economy, stopping him from securing the border, stopping him from, stopping him from protecting us from terrorism and arraying from nuclear weapons. And we found, by the way, in our and these are on our website on mclaughlinonline.com you know, do you support or oppose President Trump taking military action to support, you know, stop Iran forgetting nuclear weapons as of April 15, they supported that 52 to 40. Do they agree or disagree? It was warranted and justified. It was 5932. Do they think we should finish the job? Americans agree 60 to 30. That was April 15th. It was on our website on mclaughlinonline.com and do they think if Iran got a nuclear weapon, they would use it against the United states and our allies, 61 to 20 that they said they would. So it depends upon where they're getting the information and what they're hearing. And the Republicans, you know, being way too passive and oftentimes sometimes fighting amongst ourselves instead of having a strong contrast election with the Democrats.
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Lisa Booth
You know, right now, the Real Clear Politics average has the generic ballot at around, you know, 5.86 points for Democrats. I think around this time heading into 2018, I believe it was around 8 to 12 for Democrats. So not quite there when they picked up 41 seats in the House, but not too far away. Where do you have the generic ballot and how instructive do you think the generic ballot is in trying to determine the balance of power heading into November?
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John McLaughlin
I think it's, I think it's instructive. But, but I mean, and that survey was just referring to it when we published it on April 15th. We had the Democrats up 47, 43 in the generic ballot. And that's a distressing number because last year we were ahead most of the year and President Trump had a 49 job approval, 46 disapproval in that same survey. And so the Republicans are six points behind President Trump's job approval. And there's a gap between Trump voters and the Republican Party. So, so that's what I'm concerned about. I'm concerned about Trump voters not being enthusiastic about the Republicans in an election where Trump's not going to be on the November ballot. And the Republicans, if they don't get as aggressive as President Trump was in 2024, going after Joe Biden on the issues, being very aggressive and then going after Kamala Harris for the same thing. They're going to have trouble being able to motivate a base of voters that they need to get, you know, to win this election.
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Lisa Booth
So it's a concern their independents right now because, you know, they'll ultimately probably decide the balance of power this November. Where do you have them right now?
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John McLaughlin
Right now on that generic ballot for Congress, the Democrats are winning the independence. And again, it becomes a big concern where we've got only 27%. The Democrats got 44 and 29% undecided. And, you know, our survey is usually about a quarter of that vote is describes themselves as independents, where, you know, if, I mean, President Trump was able to win the independents or win the last election, we also did better with the Hispanic voters. We've only got 39% voting for a generic Republican. Trump got 46% in the election. And the Republicans for Congress got 45. So we're trailing among independents, where we were. We're trailing among Hispanics. We're trailing among Catholic voters. Catholic voters. Trump won by 15 points. You know, you've seen, recently, you've seen, you know, Obama's strategist, David Axelrod, go see Pope Leo for whatever reasons, I don't know. But, but, you know, they're, they're trying to, they're trying to win back the swing voter groups that President Trump had to create his majority coalition from 2024. And Republicans, candidates need to get very aggressive to run on issues that will win back independence, will back Hispanic voters, will win back, you know, Catholic voters, more women voters win them back, young men that they won in their coalition, voters under 30 who are, who are, who happen to be men. We won significantly. We've got to get them back. And the Democrats want it to be all about us. And on the other hand, they're voting for policies or supporting policies that would hurt other ones, voter groups. So we need to have a contrast election.
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Lisa Booth
Can Republicans win in November if the war is still dragging on?
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John McLaughlin
You know, the Democrats seem to be taking Iran state television and using that as their talking points. I mean, you've even got Chris Murphy up in Connecticut where he was texting out stuff that wasn't true about ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, but he got it off Iranian propaganda. So I don't think the war is going to drag on. As we talk, President Trump's trying to get the Iranians to agree to a deal that they will not have nuclear weapons. And, you know, he's, he's doing his best, but, you know, you've got a situation where the Democrats are voting for a War Powers act so they can go back to the surrender policies of Joe Biden. So I don't think the war is going to drag on for that long because the American people won't tolerate it because we want this to be over. We want to rain take, you know, certainly be certainly to be in agreement that they're not going to develop a nuclear weapon. And we'll see what that goes on. But, you know, I'm just a pollster and I'm watching this and I'm like, I don't think the American public has tolerance for, for losing to Iran and allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. After everything our men and women who are bravely sacrificing over there are doing to make sure that that doesn't happen. So we'll see. But, you know, it's sad when you see Democrats in American media parroting lines from Iranian state propaganda.
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Lisa Booth
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Lisa Booth
If the election were held tomorrow you know, how many seats do you think we would lose?
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John McLaughlin
You know, the election's not tomorrow, it's in November. Right now, we'd be in a tough position, but I think it would be close. But on the other hand, when you look forward to November, there's still some redistricting that's going to be done. But by and large, if we run on the fact that they're going to raise taxes, we cut taxes, that's the key affordability issue. If we run on the fact that we've secured the border and we're deporting criminal, illegal immigrants and the Democrats would keep them here and we'd be left safe, that would be a defining issue. The fact that we want to do more to grow the economy, they don't. They like high interest rates, they like inflation. I think we can keep the House and actually pick up Senate seats, but it requires a really aggressive campaign, the kind of campaign that we ran with Donald Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. So I think 2024 was a. Was really an important model for going outside the mainstream media, going to do, getting people information the way you do on your podcast and others and social media, and going straight to the voters with the facts. But I don't see that being done right now by the Republicans. They need to really get outside the Beltway and get back on offense.
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Lisa Booth
And then before we go, how active do you think President Trump will be this cycle, and how important is it for him to be out there to drive out turnout?
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John McLaughlin
I think he'll be very active. And you just saw in Indiana what happened yesterday in the primaries, those incumbent state senators who voted against his redistricting plan. He was very active in making sure that they would be replaced by people that were supportive of our Republican agenda. But looking forward to November, he'll be out there, he'll definitely be out there trying to help people like Mike Rogers in Michigan. He'll be out there trying to win Senate seats. Whomever you know, the Republican is against, John Ossif in Georgia, he'll be out there trying to help the congressional candidates. So. And by the way, that's kind of a, you know, it's, it's, it's. When you, when you think of the attempts on his life and the things that we have to do to make sure that he's secure, you know, he's, he's, he's really courageous and what he's doing. I mean, after the weekend, after you had something that's a very good point
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Lisa Booth
about challenges of getting him out there while also keeping him safe. That's a very good point.
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John McLaughlin
So he, you know, like if to the White House Correspondence center, here's a guy who survived Butler and somebody tried to make an attempt at the White House Correspondence Center. He goes to the villages to see these senior citizens in Florida. And, and, and, and you know, he is the commander in chief and he's, he's doing what we got to do to keep America safe and secure. And you know, you've got, the Iranians would love to, you know, have some tragic accident before the president because it didn't get much press, but some Iranians, there was some plot where the Iranians were trying to arrange assassins to kill him. They were convicted this year of what they've done two years ago. So, so it's a challenge. And what else can he do?
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Lisa Booth
You know, if, if, you know, on that note, what else can he do to try to drive turnout? If, I mean, you know, obviously it is probably very dangerous for him to go out and do the rallies that he loves doing. What else can he, you know, what else can he do to try to drive turnout?
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John McLaughlin
I think the biggest thing that he could do is try to motivate the Republicans to run a contrast election. And he's got a real challenge where he wants voter id, he wants proof of citizenship and the Senate's not moving it and they ought to just suspend the filibuster and protect our elections. Get that done.
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Lisa Booth
Yeah.
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John McLaughlin
And you know, at the same time I had that conversation with him two days ago, he says you, you against the filibuster for honest elections, it's worth it. So yeah, that's why we asked that question. And, and most Americans agree with him. 56, 28, it's not even close. And you know, so, so he needs to, he needs to motivate the Republicans to get on offense to go out there and hold the Democrats accountable for their fail policies in their positions that would make the country less safe and poor. They would flat out, they would raise taxes to give money to illegal immigrants, whether it's health care, they'd roll back workfare. Right now you have states that are putting workfare rules in place that if you want Medicaid, if you're an able bodied adult, you want Medicaid or you want public assistance, you have to work or at least be looking for a job to get that aid. Democrats don't want that. They want to have a permanent welfare state where you depend upon them to give you your sustenance, whether it's housing, whether it's food stamps or they call that SNAP now, these EBT cards. And you know, to get health care, they would just give them all those things free to make you dependent on the state. And then they would make sure that you're enrolled to vote, especially if you're an illegal immigrant. And you know, they would, you know, it would just change America forever. We can't let them do that.
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Lisa Booth
Well, we'll see if Republicans take your advice. John McLaughlin, appreciate you taking the time.
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John McLaughlin
Well, thank you very much for the opportunity and congratulations on the success of your podcast. And thank you for the opportunity.
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Lisa Booth
Once again, that was John McLaughlin. Appreciate him for coming on the show. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. Also want to thank John Casio, my producer, for putting the show together. Until next time.
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Amy Ehrich
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Podcast Host
When it comes to your own food, you can walk into a restaurant, see what's being made, and know exactly what you're getting. But with dog food, most brands keep that completely hidden. Just Food for Dogs does the opposite. They've built their entire brand around open kitchens. You can actually walk in and watch them prepare your dog's meals with real human grade ingredients like chicken, beef, carrots and peas cooked right there in front of you. No mystery, no behind the scenes, you're not allowed to see. That kind of transparency is rare in the pet food world, and it's a big reason they've become the number one vet recommended fresh dog food, earning trust from pet parents who want to feel confident in what they're feeding. When a brand is willing to show you exactly how your dog's food is made, it says a lot about the care, quality and standards behind every meal they produce. Nothing to hide. Everything to love, go to justfoodfordogs.com and get 50% off your first order.