In a typical midterm year, the August recess serves as a vital time for those up for reelection to pitch their record to their constituents. For most presidents with a governing trifecta, it’s a time to get in messaging lockstep with members of their party, touting their accomplishments as a united front. Donald Trump, however, is not most presidents.
The day the Senate came back into session for a vital two-week stretch before leaving for recess, Trump called for the chamber to cancel the month-long break if it did not pass the SAVE America Act, the GOP’s signature election security legislation, which had stalled there. Later in the week, he questioned whether Majority Leader John Thune was the right person to lead the chamber’s Republicans and insinuated that certain GOP senators were resisting his attorney general nominee because they were bitter that he would not support them for reelection. Such rhetoric may not help Republicans in November.
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