Marc Elias: ‘We Have to Assume’ Trump Will Escalate Ahead of the 2026 Midterm Elections

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ELIAS: "That’s what I would say. But I suspect what they’re going to want to hear and what what I’m oftentimes asked by members of the house and Senate and governors and ags and, and ordinary Americans is like, what, what do we think is going on? And the, the message that I deliver in private and the message I deliver to you in public is honestly pretty much the same, which. Is that, you know, we have always there has always been an effort to say, take Donald Trump seriously, but not literally. And in 2020, before the election, I was like, maybe we should take him literally and seriously, because what he does is he escalates he, you know, he, he badmouths something and then he escalates and then he goes to court and then he escalates. Like, there’s never the point at which Donald Trump says, you know what? I was wrong and I’m just going to accept the outcome. And so I think that as we look towards the 2026 midterm elections, we have to assume that all of the things that he and his cabinet and band of merry boats, pressers"