Heilemann: I Don’t Get What Trump’s Trying to Get By Attacking Republicans

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HEILEMANN: "I don’t really understand how that works in the context not of a presidential election year, where I could understand how it would work, but in the context of a midterm election year. Who’s — who’s on team Trump? The Democrats are not. And what, he’s going to run against Republicans when they’re running for re-election in a midterm election, and his name is not on the ballot? I don’t understand the logic of this. Again, in 2019, I could understand the logic of this. I don’t get what he’s trying to accomplish here in the tangible way in the short-term, because if they lose control of one or both houses in 2018, it’s really bad for Donald Trump."