Appearing on CNN on Christmas morning, longtime political advisor Mark McKinnon claimed Donald Trump will have to hit the ground running after being sworn with a short window before he starts facing insurmountable hurdles.
Speaking with host Kasie Hunt. McKinnon, who has worked with both Democrats and Republicans, pointed out that the president-elect has slim majorities in both chambers of Congress and there will reach a point when GOP lawmakers will have to start considering their 2026 re-election prospects regardless of what Trump wants.
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"I covered the entire first Trump administration from Capitol Hill and the defining word of that period of time was chaos, right, for four straight years," host Hunt prompted her guest. "You would think things would be going a certain way, and then there would be a tweet or, you know, a comment, and it would blow everything up, right? Is that the kind of feeling you expect to come back to Washington, or do you think we're going to see kind of a different way of doing things?"
"Well, I think that Trump and the Republican Party recognize how slim that majority is in the House, and therefore they're going to move on that mandate like lightning in the first year, because that's about all the time that they've got," McKinnon replied. "It's almost certain that it's going to swing back and Democrats will at least take the House back in two years."
"I mean, voters are just cranky these days and basically what they want every two years is to change no matter who's there," he elaborated. "So I think Trump and Republicans recognize that. I just think that we're just going to see, you know, a first, you know, 90 days, 100 days and first year of this Republican administration really try and get as much done as they can, because they know that the window is going to close very quickly."
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