Oct 6, 2026 · 17 min · 5 segments
10-01-2026 Diana Furchtgott-Roth Learn more about the interview and get additional links here: https://thedailyblaze.com/economic-policies-and-political-dynamics-a-debate-on-the-trump-presidency/…
Diana Furchtgott-RothGuestYou know, Trump has literally said, "I am on the ballot." And I think a lot of voters perceive it that way, although they won't find his name anywhere.
Um, it's k- become a referendum on Trump, to such a point that he's spending millions of taxpayer dollars to promote himself during an election cycle, which is just abhorrent to me, and unheard of historically.
Uh, but the q- question is, is, you know, the question you raise i- i- in, uh, a recent article, that we'll have a link to by the way, is that, um, his power, what he's accomplished, remains on the ballot, uh, regardless of, uh, his name being on there or not.
Why don't you elaborate a little bit on that and the importance of that, uh, going i- you know, going into our conversation?
And it's a very different atmosphere when the president has both houses of Congress and when the president does not.
So for example, if the House turns Democrat, uh, after the midterms in November, uh, so starting January, uh, we might have a, uh, Democrat-led House of Representatives and maybe a Democrat-led Senate, and we would still have the presidency be Republican.
And, um, and, and it's interesting because if you talk to, uh, conservatives when the, you know, Republicans win one of the two houses back from the, uh, Democrats, of course, they, they like the attrition that comes with that.
I personally think this administration, because of this incredible disdain of rule of law, its arbitrary policies, and even though it has majorities in both houses of Congress, it knee-jerkly goes to executive orders because, you know, they can't even figure out how to get things passed in having both houses of Congress.
See, I'm, I'm, my biggest decision that they, and I first worked in the Reagan campaign.
I worked, uh, with the Heritage Foundation back in the '80s, uh, w- one of its, uh, satellite organizations, the National Center for Public Policy Research, which is now separate.
You know, Trump has literally said, "I am on the ballot." And I think a lot of voters perceive it that way, although they won't find his name anywhere.
Um, it's k- become a referendum on Trump, to such a point that he's spending millions of taxpayer dollars to promote himself during an election cycle, which is just abhorrent to me, and unheard of historically.
Uh, but the q- question is, is, you know, the question you raise i- i- in, uh, a recent article, that we'll have a link to by the way, is that, um, his power, what he's accomplished, remains on the ballot, uh, regardless of, uh, his name being on there or not.
Why don't you elaborate a little bit on that and the importance of that, uh, going i- you know, going into our conversation?
And it's a very different atmosphere when the president has both houses of Congress and when the president does not.
So for example, if the House turns Democrat, uh, after the midterms in November, uh, so starting January, uh, we might have a, uh, Democrat-led House of Representatives and maybe a Democrat-led Senate, and we would still have the presidency be Republican.
And, um, and, and it's interesting because if you talk to, uh, conservatives when the, you know, Republicans win one of the two houses back from the, uh, Democrats, of course, they, they like the attrition that comes with that.
I personally think this administration, because of this incredible disdain of rule of law, its arbitrary policies, and even though it has majorities in both houses of Congress, it knee-jerkly goes to executive orders because, you know, they can't even figure out how to get things passed in having both houses of Congress.
See, I'm, I'm, my biggest decision that they, and I first worked in the Reagan campaign.
I worked, uh, with the Heritage Foundation back in the '80s, uh, w- one of its, uh, satellite organizations, the National Center for Public Policy Research, which is now separate.
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