While Republicans absorbed sweeping midterm losses, the president was focused on ballroom and Reflecting Pool renovation projects, according to aides. Some frustrated staffers are now looking to leave.<\/p>\n
The disconnect between the party's electoral setbacks and the president's preoccupations has prompted fresh questions about his focus.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> MS NOW \u2014 Trump aides question his focus after Republicans\u2019 midterm losses<\/a>. Also reported by The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While Republicans absorbed sweeping midterm losses, the president was focused on ballroom and Reflecting Pool…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[146,55,59,216,343],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2026","tag-2026-midterms","tag-donald-trump","tag-midterm-elections","tag-republican-party","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}