Jonathan Martin on Trump Pressure Campaign: The Questions Is — What Do People Facing 2026 Re- Elections Do?

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MARTIN: "Well he's returning one brushback with another, to put it in baseball terms. He -- he's sending a message to the groups and to President Trump and his inner circle that this is not effective that actually you could anger folks who otherwise were going to be winnable votes. And he's trying to make the case that he who by the way is up in 2026 is not going to respond to these kind of pressure campaigns. He's example A. I put he and Bill Cassidy from Louisiana kind of in the same bucket, people who have been Trump skeptical or more in the past who are facing 2026 reelections they're probably going to face a primary on their right. What do people like that do? But Joe, you make an important point, which is, there's a whole another crew of senators who are not up again until '28 or 2030 or like Mitch McConnell they're never going to face the voters again."