White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said President Donald Trump will campaign aggressively for GOP candidates during the midterm elections, treating the election “like it's 2024 all over again.”
Traditional measures have included limiting Trump's influence over Republican candidates in contentious elections in hopes he won't spark a backlash from Democrats. Wiles' strategy would be a bold departure from this intermediate scenario.
And it means the party will embrace a full defense of the policies and platforms that led to the president's dominance in 2024, when he easily unseated Kamala Harris, who was heavily touted by Democrats and the compliant media as the second coming of Obama.
“Usually in midterm elections it’s not about who’s in the White House. You localize the election and keep federal officials out of it,” Wiles said in an appearance on “The Mom View” podcast. “We’re actually going to turn this on its head and put it on the ballot.”
“Because many of these low propensity voters are Trump voters,” she added, noting that some of the 2025 results show “what happens when he doesn't vote and is inactive.”
“He'll campaign like it's 2024 all over again… He's making a difference and he's definitely a turnout machine.”
Susie Wiles, whom President Trump calls the most powerful woman in the world, says she has a plan to save the midterm elections for the Republican Party.
She says Trump will campaign like it's 2024 and admits she hasn't even told him that yet.
Her strategy is to… pic.twitter.com/qXxQdf5x2m
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) December 9, 2025
Wiles said she hasn't yet broken the news to President Trump that he'll still be touring the country on the campaign trail, but we doubt he'll be adamantly opposed to holding rallies and dancing at the YMCA for candidates who support him.
This will be welcome news for conservatives who remember the disappointments of past midterm elections. In 2018, during Trump's first term, Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives in a major setback, losing dozens of seats to Democrats even though they held the Senate.
Fast forward to 2022, and the much-touted “red wave” has yet to materialize. Republicans narrowly took the House of Representatives but failed to deliver the dramatic victories expected under a deeply unpopular Biden administration. Turnout among the MAGA base was weak in several battlegrounds, allowing Democrats to outperform.
Republicans opposed to the new strategy may want to look at their own record before getting involved. President Trump has been working tirelessly since his return to the Oval Office. GOP-led Congress? Not so much.
🚨 PRICELESS: Congress just set a RECORD for the fewest bills passed and House votes in 2025, the least productive year since at least 1989! (per WaPo)
In total, about 38 bills were passed, and the House of Representatives voted only 362 times.
Why? pic.twitter.com/JoYAolNXj8
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 25, 2025
This may not be the best record to go forward with.
A study of the 2024 presidential election found that, contrary to media reports, Harris was No victim of low turnout. In fact, GOP turnout was high thanks to Trump being on the ballot, and research showed that if he had gotten more voters to the polls, his already large victory would have been there were even more.
David Shore, a data scientist and Democratic political consultant known for analyzing political polls, dismissed the theory that voter turnout would give Kamala an advantage.
“The reality is that if all registered voters had turned out, Donald Trump would have won the popular vote by 5 points. [instead of the roughly 1.6+ points]”, he explained.
“So I think the strategy of ‘we need to raise the temperature and mobilize everyone’ would make the situation even worse.”
Glad to join @ezraklein talk about what happened in 2024.
There is a turnout story in this cycle, but not the one we are used to talking about. As less active and less likely voters became more Republican, higher turnout meant a larger GOP electorate. pic.twitter.com/MtqDpIst93
— David Shore (@davidshor) March 18, 2025
And here it is. Republicans, Wiles suggests, “need to raise the temperature and mobilize everyone.” Who better to do this than the most powerful political figure of our time? The man who covered the battleground states what the GOP candidates are up against in 2022.
By nationalizing the midterm elections and putting Trump front and center — through rallies, endorsements and his massive military budget — Republicans can boost turnout among the working-class voters who carried him to victory last year.
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