Republican strategists are starting to "panic" and fear a "historic wipeout" in November: [View all]

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"President Trump's poll numbers have never been worse, and Republicans are starting to panic that he could be headed to a historic wipeout that could drag the rest of the party down with him," Joseph explains. "Trump has trailed former Vice President Joe Biden by almost 10 points in recent national polling. And Republicans privately admit things look just as bad at the local level."

The "privately" part is important. It isn't hard to find Trump allies and GOP strategists who are happy to go on Fox News, put on their best game faces and insist that Trump is headed for landslide reelection. But what Republican strategists tell Laura Ingraham or Sean Hannity at Fox News and what they're really thinking can be two different things, and anonymous sources often speak with a candor that they wouldn't have if their names were attached to a website article or a cable news appearance.

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Republicans, according to Joseph, are being bombarded by everything from the coronavirus pandemic and the state of the U.S. economy to the George Floyd protests to former National Security Adviser John Bolton's new book — which is highly critical of Trump. The president might turn things around between now and November and win a second term, but one of the Republican strategists Vice interviewed fears that polls might become even worse for Republicans in the months ahead.

"Are we at the bottom or has the bottom not even dropped out yet?," the source told Vice. "I don't know what gets us out of this. People are probably just fucking sick of it."