By STEPHEN M. LEPORE, US SENIOR REPORTER
Donald Trump‘s chief of staff said the president will ‘campaign like its 2024’ over the next year to prevent his Republican Party from a disaster in the midterm elections.
Susie Wiles, also known as the ‘Ice Maiden,’ said he will return to the road to try and remake the midterms as a referendum on Trump, even if the president doesn’t know it yet.
Wiles told The Mom View: ‘I haven’t broken it to him yet, but he’s going to campaign like it’s 2024!’
Trump will travel to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island on Tuesday to kick off a domestic travel blitz that Wiles said will stretch into the new year.
‘He’s going to have a fun next year, but we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too,’ she said. ‘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.’
The Republican Party has repeatedly performed better with the president on the ballot than without but with his popularity on the wane, it could be a high-stakes ploy.
In 2016 and 2024, Trump at the top of the ticket led to the GOP controlling the White House and both houses of Congress.
Even in 2020, when Trump lost to Joe Biden, his presence on the ticket held the Democrats to a bare minimum majority in the Senate and a nine-seat lead in the House.