President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on October 9. Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Even as Tuesday’s elections hang in the balance, President Donald Trump has bluntly suggested that he is already looking ahead to the 2026 midterm races with a sense of dread.

“We’ve had success like nobody, but for some reason, you lose the midterms,” Trump said late last month at the White House, waxing aloud about the political backlash that most presidents face during midterm elections. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t make sense.”

A year after winning back the White House, the first big electoral test of Trump’s second term is taking shape in marquee elections on Tuesday, when Virginia and New Jersey will elect governors, California will vote on a pivotal ba

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