It’s been over a year since Trump won the 2024 elections. His reelection felt like a huge burden lifted after four years of the disaster that was Biden’s presidency. Trump may be in office now and for the next three years, but this is no reason to ease up. Our political fortunes can change fast, and we should never let our guard down.
Scott Jennings made that clear during a recent appearance at the Manhattan Institute. He spoke with the kind of candor that cuts through the noise and put his biggest concern front and center: the prospect of Republicans losing momentum and, ultimately, losing elections. In response to a question about what keeps him up at night, Jennings didn’t flinch.
“Losing elections,” he said. “I mean, honestly, like, the biggest danger to momentum is losing the next election.” This fear goes beyond partisan rivalry. Jennings sees real risks inside the machinery of government, where a Democrat resurgence could unravel years of Republican achievements.
He’s right, of course. Look not only at how much damage Joe Biden did in one term, but at what he tried and narrowly failed to do. As Jennings noted, if Democrats were to seize key electoral victories, their agenda would be swift and potentially irreversible. “If they win, they will impeach the president again. If they win big, um, and somehow get control of the Senate — I think Trump is right about this — they will eliminate the filibuster. If they were to win in '26 and '28, they will pack the courts. They will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states. Um, they will do a lot of terrible things in a very, very short period of time.”
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Reflecting on the stakes, Jennings spoke about a fragile political moment: “So what keeps me up at night is our political future. And I think we do have a lot of good things going right now, but it can all come to a screeching halt and go the exact opposite direction in the blink of an eye, so I worry about that.”
Turning his focus to President Trump, Jennings stressed the need for Trump to capitalize on his strengths domestically. “I hope President Trump spends 2026 doing what he does best, which is selling. We've done a lot of great things. He's put a lot of balls in the air, and a lot of them have gone through the hoop,” he said, pointing to major legislative and policy wins. But Jennings pressed further, calling for a shift from foreign policy victories to domestic persuasion: “But now it's time to… sell domestically. I think he's been one of the greatest foreign policy presidents we've had in recent memory… That doesn't typically move the needle domestically, uh, and so I think it's time to sell on the domestic front.”
Jennings listed what he saw as landmark achievements under President Trump: “I do think the Big Beautiful Bill was great. I think the welfare reform was great. Making tax cuts permanent was great. Middle-class tax cuts for working-class people was great. Uh, solving the immigration crisis was great.” Yet, he lamented that the dialogue had shifted away from these domestic issues: “But what we talk mostly about with him right now is foreign policy. And look, I'm a motivated guy when it comes to foreign policy, but most voters are motivated by domestic issues. So I want them to turn him back into the middle of this country and go out and remind people why we kicked their asses to the curb last year and put him back in, and I know that he can do it.”
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Midterm elections are historically not good for the party in power, which means Trump and the GOP need to effectively make the case that life is better when they run the show. Let’s hope they can do it, because Jennings’s fears about what the Democrats will do when they’re back in power are legit.
