President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a group of embattled Republicans he's coming to help.
The president, speaking to GOP lawmakers in the Rose Garden, said he plans to campaign for them across the country in the final sprint ahead of the midterms.
"We're going to take that final 30 days, you don't want to go too much before that because people forget," the president said, adding that he will rely on Speaker Mike Johnson to supply names where the Republican is tied, losing or winning by a small margin.
"It's all about 35 races," he said. "If you're leading by 40 points and you've been there for 25 years ... please don't ask me to come to your area and make a speech."
"I'm going to go to every one of those 35 places and we're going to see if we can get everyone elected," he added.
Trump specifically called out Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is running for reelection in Alaska, and Attorney General Ken Paxton, running for Senate in Texas, as places he plans to stump. Trump won both states in 2024 by double digits. That he is needed there now to bolster Senate candidates underscores the political peril confronting the GOP as it faces the electorate in two months.
Trump's commitment is a welcome sign for Republicans eager to have the party's best messenger try to juice the base. It comes just ahead of a rare midterm convention that the party is hosting next week in Texas and where Trump is scheduled to provide the keynote address.
But in sign of limited enthusiasm for the event, aPOLITICO survey of more than 70 GOP candidates and members revealed that most either do not plan to attend or are still weighing whether to go. Dozens more declined to share their plans.
Many Republicans remain eager for MAGA Inc. to spend its massive $400 million war chest. While money has trickled out, many donors remain unimpressed and hope Trump will urge the PAC to open the floodgates. .
GOP Reps. Tom Barrett (Mich.), Zach Nunn (Iowa), Scott Perry (Pa.), and Georgia Senate nominee Rep. Mike Collins, among others, attended the dinner on Wednesday night.
"We'll defeat the Democrat communists," Trump said in his remarks. "With what we've done in just a short period of time, a year and a half, nobody's ever seen it before … and all you have to do is talk about it and you're going to win and you're going to win big."