Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff, has announced that President Donald Trump is set to energetically support GOP candidates in the upcoming midterm elections, likening his efforts to another 2024 campaign.
Historically, Republican strategy has involved minimizing Trump’s visibility in tightly contested races to avoid energizing Democratic voters. Wiles’ approach marks a significant shift from these conventional tactics.
This new direction suggests that the party will fully endorse the policies and platforms that contributed to Trump’s decisive victory in 2024, when he outperformed Kamala Harris, who was strongly backed by the Democrats and a supportive media as a figure akin to Obama.
Wiles explained on “The Mom View” podcast, “Midterms usually aren’t about the current President. The focus is typically on localizing the elections and keeping federal figures out of the spotlight. We’re flipping that script by essentially putting Trump on the ballot.”
She highlighted that many infrequent voters are Trump supporters, pointing out how the 2025 results illustrate the impact of his absence from the ballot and active campaigning.
“He will campaign with the same intensity as in 2024…He’s a game-changer and undoubtedly drives voter turnout,” Wiles emphasized.
Susie Wiles, whom President Trump calls the most powerful woman in the world, says she has a plan to save the midterms for the Republican Party.
She says Trump will campaign like it’s 2024 all over again, and admits she hasn’t even told him this yet.
Her strategy is to make the… pic.twitter.com/qXxQdf5x2m
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) December 9, 2025
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Wiles said she hasn’t quite broken the news to President Trump that he’ll be touring the country on the campaign trail yet, but we doubt he’ll be adamantly opposed to holding rallies and dancing to the YMCA for candidates who support him.
This will be welcome news for conservatives who remember the frustration of past midterms. In 2018, during Trump’s first term, Republicans lost control of the House in a significant setback, flipping dozens of seats to Democrats despite holding the Senate.
Fast forward to 2022, when the much-hyped “red wave” never materialized. Republicans narrowly took the House but failed to deliver the sweeping victories expected under a deeply unpopular Biden administration. Turnout among the MAGA base was lackluster in several battlegrounds, allowing Democrats to overperform.
Republicans opposed to the new strategy might want to look at their own record before chiming in. President Trump has been working tirelessly since re-entering the Oval Office. The GOP-led Congress? Not so much.
🚨 WORTHLESS: Congress just set a RECORD for the fewest laws passed and House votes in 2025, the least productive year since at least 1989! (per WaPo)
Only ~38 bills enacted, House barely voted 362 times.
Why? pic.twitter.com/JoYAolNXj8
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 25, 2025
That might not be the best record to run on.
A study of the 2024 presidential election revealed that, contrary to the media narrative, Harris was not a victim of low turnout. In fact, GOP turnout was strong thanks to Trump being on the ballot, and the study suggested that had he driven more voters to the polls, his already big victory would have been even larger.
David Shor, a Democrat data scientist and political consultant renowned for analyzing political polls, refuted the theory that voter turnout would have helped give Kamala the edge.
“The reality is if all registered voters had turned out, then Donald Trump would’ve won the popular vote by 5 points [instead of the roughly 1.6+ points],” he explained.
“So, I think that a ‘we need to turn up the temperature and mobilize everyone’ strategy would’ve made things worse.”
Excited to join @ezraklein to talk through what happened in 2024.
There’s a turnout story this cycle, but not the one we’re used to talking about. With less-engaged and less-likely voters becoming more Republican, a larger turnout meant a more GOP electorate. pic.twitter.com/MtqDpIst93
— David Shor (@davidshor) March 18, 2025
And there you have it. Republicans, as Wiles is suggesting, “need to turn up the temperature and mobilize everyone.” Who better to do that than the most consequential political figure of the modern era? The man who swept the battleground states where GOP candidates in 2022 struggled.
By nationalizing the midterms and putting Trump front and center—with rallies, endorsements, and his massive war chest—Republicans can drive turnout among the working-class voters who propelled him to victory last year.
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