If the Republicans don’t keep the House in November’s midterms, it won’t be Donald Trump’s fault. It’ll be the fault of a dunderheaded subset of Trump voters who don’t think midterm elections matter.

Trump’s name might not be on the ballot in each of the 435 congressional districts that’ll choose their representatives on Tuesday, November 3, but his policies and the agenda that the American people voted for so resoundingly are most certainly on the ballot.

So if you appreciate a good economy, low inflation, better affordability, cheaper gas, more take-home pay, secure borders, safer streets, and a strong America, you’d better have a plan to vote, and you’d better tell every like-minded person you know to have a plan. Because the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency are topmost on the ballot.

The president himself certainly knows this, even if a critical share of his supporters do not. Which is why he was multitasking yesterday — when isn’t he multitasking? — first in DC, where he hosted representatives of nearly 50 countries at the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace, and then at Coosa Steel Corporation in northwestern Georgia, where he stopped by to support a local congressional candidate and a friend and neighbor of ours here at The Patriot Post — Clay Fuller — who’s running in a March 10 special election to fill the 14th District House seat recently vacated by Republican firebrand and latter-day Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene

GA-14 is a solidly Republican district, with an R+19 rating from the Cook Political Report, so the election shouldn’t be close. But given some of the weird happenings in special elections around the country in recent months, Trump isn’t taking any chances. He even went so far as to grant a full “pardon” to Fuller’s young daughter, Tallulah, who cut class and collected a detention slip in order to attend the rally for her dad.

Only Trump!

He gave a lighthearted “full pardon” to congressional candidate Clay Fuller’s daughter after she got detention for skipping school to hear him speak and endorse her father in Georgia.

Trump: “You’re fully pardoned, tell the teacher I said it’s fine.” pic.twitter.com/Usp2DeMgB2

— DK (@1Nicdar) February 20, 2026

“Stand up, Tallulah,” said Trump. “Tallulah, you are fully pardoned. Don’t worry. Just tell the teacher I said it’s fine.”

“Thanks to the fact that we got elected on November 5,” said Trump, “and thanks to what I call the Trump tariffs, business and steel [are] booming again.”

Trump’s Georgia rally was his first since a visit to Iowa late last month. Prior to that, he’d made trips to the battlegrounds of Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, where he touted his economic success as well as his success at taming Bidenflation and improving the affordability issue that the Democrats have been prattling about.

“Did you notice,” asked Trump rhetorically from the podium in Georgia, “what word haven’t you heard over the last two weeks? Affordability. Because I’ve won. I’ve won affordability. I had to go out and talk about it. We inherited a mess.”

Trump did inherit a mess, and the American economy and affordability under him are worlds better than they were under his White House predecessor. But the American electorate is fickle, and it has a pathetically short — Oh, look, a squirrel! — attention span. So he needs to keep pounding that message home.

Clearly, he understands this. Late last month, Trump touted the country’s economic success on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal:

Countless so-called experts, including those featured frequently in The Wall Street Journal, predicted confidently that the Trump tariffs would crash stock markets, crush economic growth, cause massive inflation, destroy American exports, and trigger a “worldwide recession.” Nine months later, the results are in, every one of those predictions has proven completely and totally wrong. Since I was elected in 2024, we have had 52 stock market highs, with virtually no inflation. There has never been anything like it!

If only Trump’s supporters read the Journal’s editorial page. Happily, they don’t.

Late this morning, the Supreme Court dealt Trump’s highly successful tariff regime a serious blow, ruling that he’d exceeded his Article II executive powers by imposing those tariffs without clear authorization from Congress. This ruling isn’t entirely unexpected, and Trump has, in the past, said that he’s got other ways to impress upon our trading partners that the days of sticking it to the U.S. are over, at least for another two years. But still.

In essence, then, these midterms are a referendum on the Trump agenda, including his tariffs. So if you love this great economy, if you appreciate low inflation and better affordability, if you like cheaper gas, more take-home pay, closed borders, safer streets, and a strong America, make sure you have a plan to vote on November 3. And make sure every like-minded person you know also has a plan to vote — especially if you live in a tightly contested House district. Because that’s where the last two years of Donald Trump’s term will be decided.

Because, trust me: Every loon on the Trump-deranged Left most certainly has a plan to vote. And if Senate Majority Leader John Thune doesn’t get off his butt and hold the Democrats’ feet to the fire for their ridiculous opposition to free, fair, and honest elections, the last two years of Donald Trump’s second term will be long ones indeed.