Your Political Futures Depend on Me, Trump Tells GOP Governors

US President Donald Trump told Republican governors that implementing his agenda was key to their own political futures, arguing that embracing it could mitigate or even prevent losses in the midterm elections.

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"We are going to fight very hard because the better I do, the better you do," he said. "It makes your races a lot easier if we do well, and we are going to keep doing well."

The Feb 20 meeting with Republican governors in Washington gave him an opportunity to reiterate his agenda to key allies in the states ahead of crucial gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey later in 2025, and in three dozen other states in 2026.

Every seat in the US House and a third of those in the Senate – both controlled narrowly by Republicans – will also be on the ballot in 2026.

A president's party typically suffers in the midterm elections, losing an average of 28 House seats and four Senate seats in midterm elections since 1934, according to a Bloomberg review of election data compiled by the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"You know, in presidential races, they say when you win the presidency, usually the midterms don't go well," Mr Trump said. "I think we are going to do great. I think we are going to really increase our margins by a lot."