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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/20/donald-trump-nbc-news-poll-economy-iran/91859376007/
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/20/he-is-kryptonite-republicans-start-breaking-with-trump-01085159

In late January, when President Donald Trump endorsed his close ally Rep. Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, Tiffany said he was “especially honored” and promised to “make Wisconsin great again.”

But in recent weeks, he’s taken a different tone.

Tiffany responded to Trump renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” by declaring “the Great Lakes are the Great Lakes,” brushing aside the edict. He broke with Trump’s pro-data centers position, criticized the easing of tariffs on beef imports, and deflected questions on the president’s proposed mail-in ballot reforms that the Supreme Court blocked earlier this week. And after years of questioning whether the 2020 election was rigged against the president, including supporting an FBI probe into Wisconsin’s votes in May, he’s now taken to sidestepping the issue.

“Joe Biden won,” Tiffany said in a statement to local fact-checking outlet Wisconsin Watch earlier this month.

The rhetorical shift from such a staunch Trump ally is among a series of breaks from the president that Tiffany and other battleground Republicans have made in recent weeks. They’re an implicit acknowledgment that, even in states and districts where Republicans have had success, candidates are suffering from a deteriorating national political environment for the GOP.

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