What Trump shares with Truman after a midterm shellacking | CNN Politics
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Shortly after World War II, as the United States faced a rising Soviet Union, a devastated Europe, and the dawn of a Cold War, President Harry S. Truman got clobbered in midterm elections.
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Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. He is the author of Brink: Inside the Race to Free the October 7 Hostages.
Shortly after World War II, as the United States faced a rising Soviet Union, a devastated Europe, and the dawn of a Cold War, President Harry S. Truman’s Democratic Party got clobbered in midterm elections.
