Republican downfall: The inside story of Team Trump’s midterm collapse
The Irish Times · Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman ·
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms
Six days before this week’s midterm election, more than two dozen of US president Donald Trump’s top strategists logged on to a private video call.
The mood was grim. The discussion began with talk of cyanide.
“Do you want the white pill first, or the black pill first?” asked Tony Fabrizio, the president’s chief pollster.
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