Douchey sex pest Mark Halperin reports that convicted felon President Trump’s top minions including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Suckretary Scott Bessent, Epstein pal Howard Nutlick, Bobby Brainworms, former MTV Real World cast member Sean Duffy, pollster Tony Fabrizio, and cueball-headed political apparatchik James Blair held a midterms strategy session in front of an audience of about 175 to 200 other, lower-ranking comrades at the Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday night, a meeting at which Halperin writes “was a veteran group, not panicked or shaken.”

“Just focused on the work and the task at hand,” he continued. Okay, Mark. Got it.

“The group was served a chicken and steak buffet,” Halperin also wrote in the lnegthy tweet. That was actually before he described their state of mind and the non-state of panic. It’s not clear if he was actually in the room or if he was allowed to eat from the buffet if he was indeed there for the powow. Anyway, Fabrizio had a lengthy presentation on the economy being the main issue for November (no shit) and hammering the need be focus on the Big Beautiful Billionaire giveaway, pushing housing affordability that the GOP has no plans to address and blah blah blah.

“His message was not pessimistic,” Halperin then adds gratuitously to his account.

Then James Blair stood up and told the group that the party in the White House almost always loses seats in the midterm and if anyone in the room didn’t know that then they should’ve been fired years ago. Blair then said Republicans would’ve lost the December Tennessee 7th special if they hadn’t done an all out blitz to put Matt Van Epps over the top. As mentioned here several times since: That special saw 99.3 percent of 2022 midterm turnout and it swung 13 percent towards Dems. In a lot of ways that should freak the MAGA Reich out a lot more than losing the seat for a year at 47 percent turnout would have. A D+13 percent swing in November would be fucking cataclysmic for the GOP.

Next, Blair told the crowd that arguing that wages are up isn’t going to help, voters just aren’t feeling it yet. Per Halperin, Blair then “acknowledged that Trump will do what he wants to do, say what he wants to say, not be data driven. Everyone else has to stay on message and be driven by the data.”

“In effect, two separate but related campaigns,” said Blair, indirectly quoted by Halperin.

Again, Blair is one of Trump’s top political strategists, a Deputy White House Chief of Staff, and he’s telling the administration’s power centers that they can’t control their principal so they just have to work around him if they want to have any chance whatsoever of holding on to their majorities.