Stone says Trump’s midterm campaigning is lifting GOP candidates

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, October 22, 2026

Longtime adviser Roger Stone says President Trump’s aggressive midterm campaigning is lifting Republican candidates and putting the GOP within reach of holding both chambers of Congress.

Roger Stone told Newsmax on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s relentless travel schedule is helping Republicans gain ground in key House and Senate races with Election Day less than two weeks away.

Stone, a longtime political adviser, argued the president’s rallies are turning out lower-propensity voters and giving the GOP a shot at keeping control of both chambers, even though the president’s party typically loses seats in midterms.

Trump has campaigned in numerous states since Oct. 1 and has more stops planned before the Nov. 3 elections, traveling the country to back Republican candidates. Stone described that pace as a major asset, not a distraction.

In comments Stone gave Newsmax, he cast Trump as energized by the trail and uniquely skilled at expanding the electorate beyond reliable base voters.

"First of all, Donald Trump is a force of nature. He's enjoying this. He's a happy warrior. He loves campaigning,"

Stone said, adding that the president “gets strength from the American people” and calling him “the greatest campaigner in our party since, I think, Theodore Roosevelt.”

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Stone sees day-by-day gains, not a Democratic wave

Stone’s core claim was practical: Trump is good at mobilizing voters who often skip midterms, and that work is showing up in major races.

"He's particularly adept at turning out those marginal voters, those lower propensity voters. I think he's succeeding,"

he said. He also argued Republicans are not stuck defending a fragile lead but are closing the gap where it matters.

"In politics, the worst place to be is out front, trying to hold on to a narrow lead. That's the hardest place to be. The best place to be is in second place but moving up."

Stone said that pattern is what he sees “in every major race” across the Senate and House, with “Republicans making incremental gains day by day.”

That midterm fight is unfolding alongside other enforcement and leadership fights in Washington, including a Justice Department push in which DOJ charges 64 noncitizens with illegal voting as the election nears.

Pressed on outcomes, Stone rejected the idea of a sweeping Democratic House takeover and kept his forecast tight.

"If I were forced to guess, I would believe that we will hold the Senate and we're still in a dogfight for the House,"

he said. He dismissed “this fantasy of a 30-seat swing in the House,” predicting instead that the House “is going to be exceedingly close.”

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Holding both chambers would buck midterm history

Stone went further on the full map. He said Republicans are now positioned to keep both the House and Senate, and that outcome is “not at all inconceivable,” even while acknowledging it would cut against the long-running tendency for a president’s party to lose congressional seats in a midterm.

He framed Trump’s schedule itself as the mechanism: aggressive campaigning, constant travel, and a candidate who treats rallies as fuel rather than a chore. In Stone’s telling, that style is why marginal voters are moving and why Democratic hopes of a 30-seat House swing are overstated.

Foreign policy choices are part of the same pre-election stretch, including coverage of how Trump rejects Iran strikes before the November midterms while keeping a blockade in place.

Stone’s appearance came on Newsmax’s “Finnerty” program and offered no named pollster, district list, or turnout model behind the “incremental gains” line. His case rested on the campaign calendar since Oct. 1, the remaining stops before Nov. 3, and his read of major House and Senate contests.

White House discipline has been another recurring theme in recent weeks, from personnel stability after Trump shuts down talk of dumping Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to signature domestic actions such as when Trump and Melania sign a women’s health order in the Rose Garden.

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Stone’s message was blunt: Trump is not pacing himself toward Election Day, he is using the final stretch to pull less frequent voters into Republican columns, and that effort is why Stone sees a close House fight and a Senate hold instead of a Democratic romp.

When a president works the map this hard and turns out voters the other side counts out, Republicans should not apologize for playing to win both chambers.

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