Trump vows to fight Freedom Caucus Republicans and Democrats in 2018 midterms

President Trump has declared political battle in the 2018 midterm elections against Democrats and registered members of the Republican party within the Freedom Caucus.

"The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast," Trump said in a Thursday morning tweet. "We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!"

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Trump's tweet comes almost one full week after House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the GOP's legislative attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare with a newly crafted American Health Care Act. Meetings between the Trump administration, Republican leadership and their more conservative colleagues in the Freedom Caucus were frequent last week, but Ryan was unable to get a firm vote count -- and proceeded to call the president relaying his course of action in pulling the bill from the House floor.

According to a Politico report released this week, a "secret Freedom Caucus pact" brought down the Trumpcare legislation as conservative Republican members -- including Sen. Rand Paul who called the AHCA "Obamacare Lite" -- agreed that "No member would commit his vote before consulting with the entire group — not even if [President] Trump himself called to ask for an on-the-spot commitment."

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Trump's approval ratings sank to two separate record low points over the course of the past week. In the wake of his public approval slump, the president is likely emboldened by these numbers to codify his ability to move campaign promises through Congress with a solid Republican majority in Congress.

This is not the president's first reference to midterm elections, during which 33 Senate seats and all 435 House seats are up for re-election. As he held last-minute meetings on Capitol Hill with hesitant Freedom Caucus members, he emphasized the opportunity to "do something fantastic," adding a job threat to his rhetoric.

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"I'm asking for your vote on Thursday," Trump said last week during a meeting with lawmakers. "I honestly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you don't get this done."

Republicans currently hold the majority in both the House and Senate. According to Ballotpedia, Democrats are likely to have 23 Senate seats up for election along with two independents who caucus with Democrats. Republicans are expected to have nine seats up for election -- including a special election in Alabama.

"We were a 10-year opposition party where being against things was easy to do. You just had to be against it," Ryan said last Friday on the Republican party's growing pains. "Now, in three months time, we try to go to a governing party where we actually have to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things, and we just quite weren't there today."

As the president eyes an expansive budget proposal, tax reform and a series of other campaign promises he has yet to deliver on, he appears prepared to rally support for those in Congress who are willing to back his administration's agenda.

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