Oct 23, 2026 · 25 min · 13 segments
Historian and professor Allan Lichtman joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss his predictions for the upcoming midterm elections, what races he’s watching, and what the results could mean for 2028…
Allan LichtmanGuest
Brittany LewisHost
And an interesting pattern that it's developing is where the GOP is putting their money, where they're pulling it back.
We've seen them pouring money into defending seats in more traditional red territories like Senate races in Mississippi and Kansas and red congressional districts in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kentucky.
They're pulling back from more competitive races like the Senate campaigns in both Georgia and North Carolina.
What do you make of that, especially paired with the fact that when you see this last sprint to the midterms and you see where President Trump is going, he's visiting places where he won by double digits.
I've been astounded by the fact that Democrats are competitive in some very deep ruby red states.
Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the US Senate since the Herbert Hoover administration during the Great Depression of 1932.
Donald Trump being so miserably unpopular, even in these red states, he's unpopular across the board.
in the united states second thing that's changed is the state of the country people are really unhappy with the state of the country 71 percent nationally think the country is going in the wrong direction you know gas prices are high other prices are high the economy is sluggish it's not creating jobs our democracy is in peril and people are starting to realize that that's Democracy has moved up to one of the top issues of people's concerns.
You know, hundreds of them for debts, even trivial amounts of money, charging 18% interest.
And an interesting pattern that it's developing is where the GOP is putting their money, where they're pulling it back.
We've seen them pouring money into defending seats in more traditional red territories like Senate races in Mississippi and Kansas and red congressional districts in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kentucky.
They're pulling back from more competitive races like the Senate campaigns in both Georgia and North Carolina.
What do you make of that, especially paired with the fact that when you see this last sprint to the midterms and you see where President Trump is going, he's visiting places where he won by double digits.
I've been astounded by the fact that Democrats are competitive in some very deep ruby red states.
Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the US Senate since the Herbert Hoover administration during the Great Depression of 1932.
Donald Trump being so miserably unpopular, even in these red states, he's unpopular across the board.
in the united states second thing that's changed is the state of the country people are really unhappy with the state of the country 71 percent nationally think the country is going in the wrong direction you know gas prices are high other prices are high the economy is sluggish it's not creating jobs our democracy is in peril and people are starting to realize that that's Democracy has moved up to one of the top issues of people's concerns.
You know, hundreds of them for debts, even trivial amounts of money, charging 18% interest.
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