Trump staffers continue to quit as midterms approach. “Once Nov. 3 hits, it’s Armageddon, and everyone’s out.”
“Donald Trump has lost another White House aide ahead of what is predicted to be a bloodbath for his party in the midterms.
Press assistant Ellie Acra, 25, is expected to become the latest to leave the 80-year-old president’s increasingly embattled operation on Friday, the Daily Mail reported.
Trump’s press operation has lost a quarter of its senior staff since the start of August. Acra’s departure follows that of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who’s since moved to MAGA Inc., the president’s powerful super PAC.
Other high-profile losses over the past several weeks include Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair, who joins Leavitt at MAGA Inc., along with Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and White House Chief Counsel David Warrington.
Overall turnover among senior Executive Office officials since the start of Trump’s second term has meanwhile reached 56 percent as of the end of September, according to the Mail. That’s 16 percentage points higher than the rate throughout Joe Biden’s first two years in office, and the highest rate under any president since Ronald Reagan almost 40 years ago.
“The original coalition fell apart; there’s cracks in the [Make America Healthy Again] movement and the anti-war MAGA base,” a former member of the administration told the Mail on Thursday. “A lot of people don’t like the direction this administration is headed between the Iran war and increasing prices.”
There’s a very real concern that the midterms will not turn out good for Republicans,” a former administration official told the Mail of the mood in the White House. Another was even more blunt: “Once Nov. 3 hits, it’s Armageddon, and everyone’s out.””