With just 78 days to go before America’s midterm elections, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again political adviser, is suddenly a deeply worried man.
On Friday, the President’s political Svengali told viewers of his daily “War Room” broadcast that he has looked at the state of play in the midterm election campaign and fears Republicans are destined to come up short.
Citing figures showing that Democratic candidates are ahead – in some cases, comfortably ahead – in several key states, Bannon insisted the party is on the brink of what he termed “a disaster… completely, an absolute debacle”.
But Bannon insisted there is still a way of saving the Trump project. He urged Republicans in Congress to immediately double down on their support of the President, warning the party’s leaders that they are now complicit in a looming electoral disaster.
“If you treat President Trump as a lame duck… people are not going to show up” at the polls, he warned. “There’s zero enthusiasm for any of these candidates,” he said of Republican nominees in key battleground states.
Only Trump, he insisted, could deliver the party victory.
Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, is not dropping the idea of a third Trump term (Photo: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)The White House has conceded for months that the midterm elections will serve as a referendum on Trump’s second term in office, and Republican lawmakers are increasingly fearful for their own futures, recognising the drag that Trump’s war on Iran has had on their own chances.
But Bannon is one of several Republican strategists who believe the answer to the party’s woes is more Trump, not a retreat from him. A self-confessed “huge advocate of President Trump’s third term”, Bannon also continues to maintain that a way will be found to circumvent the Constitution and keep Trump at the helm for another four years.
With Trump’s personal approval ratings crashing to record-low levels, earlier talk about him seeking a third term has largely been silenced. No members of his own government are publicly backing the idea, and the President’s name has not been included in the handful of straw polls conducted at Republican Party events across the country.
Andy Ogles introduced a measure in the House of Representatives that would rewrite the Constitution in order to let Trump serve a third term (Photo: Heather Diehl/Getty Images)Congressman Andy Ogles, a fervent Trump ally who introduced a measure in the House of Representatives that would rewrite the Constitution’s 22nd amendment so that any president serving two non-consecutive terms in office would be eligible to seek a third term, lost a primary election in Tennessee this month and will be departing Capitol Hill at the end of the year.
Polling has shown that more than 60 per cent of Americans believe that Trump is serious about the possibility of serving a third term, but Republican voters are evenly split over whether they would back him in that endeavour. A Suffolk University survey conducted for The Boston Globe in May showed 46.9 per cent of Republican voters would support him, but 46.7 per cent would not.
However, none of that has stopped the President from threatening a third term in repeated posts online, and through his own “Trump 2028” merchandise. On Saturday, his social media feed included an image of him wearing a “Trump 2028” baseball cap that he has sported publicly on several occasions. “We are going to win”, read the caption below.
TRUMP SIGNALS POSSIBLE 2028 BIDPresident Trump posted an apparently AI-generated image of himself wearing a “Trump 2028” hat on Saturday.The image included the message: “We are going to win.” signals Trump is again publicly floating the prospect of seeking another… pic.twitter.com/M2iKr0m6Er
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) August 15, 2026In recent weeks, Trump has referenced the possibility of seeking a third term. He also sidestepped a reporter’s question about whether he would rule out the prospect of trying to secure one, despite it being against the US Constitution.
For those worried about democracy, the President is also openly flirting with the idea of declaring a national security emergency ahead of November’s midterms.
He was challenged last week by the hard-right TV host Wayne Allyn Root to declare a national security emergency in order to bypass Congress’s required approval for the SAVE America Act, which would require people to provide ID and proof of citizenship to vote. In response, Trump said cryptically: “Let me just say that stranger things have happened, ok? I’ll leave it at that”.
Trump – like Bannon – is especially angered over the Senate’s failure to pass legislation that would require all voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering for elections – and have photographic identification at the time they cast their votes.
Democrats claim that the proposed law – already passed by the House of Representatives – is nothing more than an effort to limit minority voter participation.
Many Republican lawmakers now find themselves living in a difficult political reality, one that they can’t seem to escape.
The worse things get for Trump, the more they fear for their own skins unless they separate from him. But Bannon and other Maga voices argue that their retreat from Trump’s orthodoxy is the reason behind their potential immolation – and urge them to return to the fold.
For now, Democrats are watching with glee. The latest modelling shows Republicans more than 8 per cent behind their opponents, with the political statistician Nate Silver saying that “everything is breaking the Democrats’ way”.
But cornered, Trump may become more erratic and less rational than ever. In the remaining days of the campaign, anything could happen, as the Maga grassroots seek to protect their leader at all costs.
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