‘Dumbest thing Democrats could do’ if they win the 2026 midterms is go after Trump, Patrick Bet-David tells ‘Pod Force One’
Attacking President Trump is “the dumbest thing Democrats could do” should they win control of the House and Senate after the midterm elections, businessman and podcaster Patrick Bet-David argued in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”
Bet-David, the host of the “PBD Podcast,” further predicted that if Democrats do decide to go after the president following a possible blue wave in November, the MAGA base could rally around another Trump in 2028.
“If they go and they try to arrest, impeach – the same playbook they used in 2020, 2021 – if they do that …. you know who will suddenly show up in the 2027-2028 election running for president? Not just [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio, not [Vice President] JD Vance, but Eric and Lara Trump,” Bet-David told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine.
Eric Trump, the president’s 42-year-old son, “can hang against” the likes of Vance and Rubio, Bet-David argued.
“So can Lara,” he said of Eric’s wife. “They’re media trained. They have the money. They’re good-looking. They’re young. Their last name is Trump.
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“And just to give the Democratic Party a middle finger, I think the MAGA base will get behind them enough to help them win because that’s their way of saying three terms of Trump.”
Going after Trump, and riling up the MAGA faithful ahead of the presidential election, would be “the dumbest thing Democrats could do if they win the midterms,” the media mogul said.
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“That’s the dumbest. But I would not be surprised if they do it because they haven’t shown restraint,” Bet-David continued.
The podcast host cautioned that Eric and Lara may not garner enough support to win the GOP primaries if they run, but one of them may end up in the “top three.”
Bet-David touted Lara’s work as co-chair of the Republican National Committee during the 2024 cycle, calling her “very talented.”
“When the president won in 2024, don’t forget, Lara deployed 2,000 lawyers to go to every one of the districts that they were possibly considering cheating. She watched everybody like a hawk,” he explained.
“You see, there is the stage thing that we all watch on TV on how to run for office, then there is the operation behind closed doors.
“Lara Trump knows how to do that as well, and it’s a secret weapon.”
