MAGA is 'shattered' and unprepared for the beating it’s about to get: report

MAGA is still very much a power player in Republican primaries, but Zeteo reports Trump’s culty foundation is crashing out with the rest of America, particularly voters.

The news comes as Fox News published stunning poll results for the Senate race in red-state Ohio with Democrat Sherrod Brown leading GOP incumbent Jon Husted, 53 percent to 45 percent.

“In an era of metronomic partisan polarization, that eight-point Democratic margin in Ohio almost defies belief,” said Zeteo writer John Harwood. “But an intra-Republican fracture explains it: Only 4 percent of those aligned with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement backed Brown, but 31 percent of ‘non-MAGA’ Republicans crossed party lines to support the Democratic candidate.”

“That snapshot reflects an emerging 2026 picture that does not resemble a familiar face-off between evenly-matched Republican and Democratic two parties,” said Harwood, a former White House correspondent for CNN. “Instead, the midterm elections increasingly pit the MAGA minority against the American majority of everyone else.”

Trump’s MAGA base is still solid, with polling measuring it as 36 percent of all voters months after his last re-election. But 36 percent is not enough to win an election, and it’s not getting any higher with Trump’s popularity crashing.

“The non-MAGA segment – currently about 40 percent of the GOP – had misgivings about Trump after his first term and its violent conclusion. But in the end, three of four backed him, finding Harris too far left and Trump more likely to help on inflation and immigration,” said Harwood.

“The difference in this cycle is their illusions have been shattered,” said pollster Geoff Garin.

“Instead of taming inflation … Trump’s tariffs and failed war against Iran have worsened it,” said Harwood. “Meanwhile, the president fattens his bank account, feeds his ego with vanity projects, fabricates prosecutions against enemies, and excuses or obscures the crimes of friends, including the late [sex-trafficker] Jeffrey Epstein.”

“Ominously for the GOP,” Harwood reports, “attitudes among non-MAGA Republicans keep edging closer to those of self-described independents – who have abandoned Trump in droves. On issues large and small, that produces lopsidedly negative national assessments of Trump’s priorities.”

Only 18 percent of Americans say Trump’s Iran war had been useful, in one poll, while 63 percent say Trump’s policies benefit the rich and corporations. And only 16 percent approved of Trump’s UFC fight on the White House lawn in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

And while Trump disgust won’t turn non-MAGA Republicans into Democrats, but some will, as indicated by Brown’s lead in Ohio. Many other non-MAGA Republicans will simply not vote at all.

“MAGA appears loyal enough to keep Trump’s national job approval from dropping much below its current 36-39 percent range in the leading polling averages. [But] … given the alienation of other Republicans, Democrats may not need it to,” said Harwood.

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