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you → bury → date
It’s Swin again.
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It → ’ → ?
I cannot possibly pretend what I’m about to tell you isn’t immensely funny.
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’m → pretend → you
It is also, I would argue, a meaningful sign of just how badly screwed the Republican Party and its MAGA overlords likely are, with election night just over a month away.
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Party → argue → night
In today’s ‘First Draft,’ you’ll discover what the GOP and Trumpworld elite REALLY think about their collective decision to make a lone California-based Twitch streamer one of the main characters of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.
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streamer → discover → elections
(Hint: The data is in and they’re not happy.)
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they → ’re → ?
Plus, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an absurd speech, and an even more absurd book, to a captive military audience in Virginia.
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Hegseth → give → Virginia
Let’s jump in.
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’s → let → ?
My job is to talk to as many Trump administration officials, well-connected Republican operatives and data dorks, GOP lawmakers and aides, and other conservative bigwigs and influence peddlers as I can.
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I → talk → officials
The gig is as unglamorous as it is irritating, but it puts me in a position to confidently tell you:
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it → put → you
What you’ve been hearing in the media isn’t hype or liberal wish-fulfillment.
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hearing → hear → media
The 2026 freakout among the top tiers of the Republican Party and conservative movement – about President Donald Trump’s catastrophic poll numbers, and the very real possibility that this year’s midterms are going to be an electoral slaughterhouse for the GOP – isn’t just real.
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midterms → go → GOP
Lately, the behind-the-scenes, party-wide sense of terror has been growing conspicuously worse, almost by the day, as we approach November.
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we → grow → November
(And this is easy to forget, but: Trump-aligned pollsters started thinking he and the party were “fucked” even before he launched his disastrous Iran war in February; so imagine what they must be thinking now.
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they → forget → what
So today, I want to give you a concrete example of how “fucked” they think they are with a month left on the clock, and where they think their own people have inflicted extremely unforced errors.
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people → want → errors
I could point to more obvious warning signs, such as how much of the Republican Party is blaring the alarm bells over Iowa – Iowa! – being in play.
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Iowa → point → play
Instead, I’m going to dish on how frustrated some prominent Republican consultants and Trump advisers are about their party’s never-ending anti-Hasan Piker strategy.
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consultants → go → strategy
Yes, that Hasan Piker, the hard-left Twitch streamer who has infuriated Democratic elites with his efforts to push the party leftward and to a more pro-Palestinian position.
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who → infuriate → position
The anti-Piker strategy may have started with Dems and their think tanks but boy, did it end up being a uniquely hysterical and sometimes horny obsession in Republican circles and right-wing media.
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it → start → circles
And, as a variety of seasoned Republican operatives and advisers to the president quietly tell me, many of the GOP’s movers and shakers don’t think the attacks are working.
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attacks → tell → movers
And they have the non-public data to back up the argument.
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they → have → argument
In fact, one of Trump’s own pollsters is now throwing cold water on the Piker-hating electoral strategy, in a brief conversation with Zeteo.
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one → throw → Zeteo
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