“President Trump has been saying, ‘Vote as if I was on the ballot,’ and that’s exactly what I’m going to do — not vote,” Brandon Tremaine, a graduate student in Texas who voted for Trump in 2020, told The New York Times.

“You do not campaign on being the ticket of peace and start a war of choice that is directly hurting Americans here at home and gotten Americans killed overseas.”

Voters like Tremaine pose a huge headache for Republicans. Few Trump supporters are likely to back Democrats next month, but many of them are so disillusioned with the president and his party that they will simply stay home.

“The enthusiasm has to be ginned up among Republicans because turnout is what’s going to determine the outcome of these midterm elections,” GOP strategist Charlie Gerow admitted to Reuters.

As CNN reported, “For the GOP, this year’s biggest challenge will be would-be voters who say, ‘I’m frustrated, I’m disappointed, I’m pissed off and I’m not going to bother.'” said Democratic pollster Paul Maslin. “And the I’m-not-going-to-bother voters will be disproportionately (Trump’s) voters, and not ours.”

This enthusiasm gap is draining and damaging Republicans.........

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