This is the omnipresence of President Donald Trump in the campaign. The Trump administration in its second term has lost its earlier connect even with US voters who have consecutively voted for Trump three times, his first and third successful Presidential bids and his second bid, in which he lost to Joe Biden.

There is a disenchantment and discontent with Trump as a consequence of several factors. The first is the high rate of inflation across the grocery shelves that has been caused by his quirky tariff and trade policies. The other is the reality of his war with Iran all but lost, in the sense that the IRGC has been able to spike up the prices of fuel, principally diesel, by its hold over the Strait of Hormuz and by the Houthi hold over the lower chokepoint for sea transportation of fuel. The Houthis are a proxy of Iran, as is Hezbollah in Lebanon.

High prices and static, if not reduced, pay checks have generated substantial unease even among the diehard backers of President Trump. Another is his loss of credibility, prophesying that the Strait of Hormuz would open "in three days" or "immediately" and nothing of the sort thereafter happens. Florid and bombastic language projected into the homes of voters through television cannot compensate for the lesser pay checks and greater costs of living of the average US consumer. As for President Trump, from the financially lofty heights of his billionaire status, he sees no "Affordability Crisis" at all. If he can afford higher prices, so should the average US voter, is his logic.

It is not a perception but reality that the Trump administration is run by the billionaires for the billionaires, a fact visible in real time to all voters. The peripatetic Trump shuttles everywhere in the luxurious Air Force 1 gifted to him by the Emir of Qatar. Much of the time of the US President is spent not on the ground in the Oval Office of the White House but in the air. Judging by his speeches, President Trump is in denial about the factual economic situation, and constantly talks up his policies and the effects they are having on the US economy. In matters of foreign policy, he had promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in a single day when he was campaigning for the US Presidency in 2024.

He first talks about an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine as having been agreed upon by both sides, only to later admit that neither the Russians nor the Ukrainians had agreed to an energy ceasefire when he said that. Small wonder that confidence in the promises made by President Trump is slipping lower and lower. Abroad, traditional US allies are moving away from Washington and are at risk, at least some of them, of falling prey to the net cast by the CCP. Since Trump lost his earlier sense of direction about nine months into his second term, his tenure has been marked by inexplicable zigzags and a consistent record of failure

Gen Z is a crucial voting segment, and young people are addicted to Instagram more than to Facebook or any other social network platform. On Instagram, President Trump is being skewered with contemptuous memes and messages, such that this has become the view of the youth via Instagram messaging. During his 2024 Presidential campaign it was his rival President Joe Biden who was being lampooned rather than Trump. Today every effort by the spinmeisters in the White House to shift unflattering focus away from President Trump onto others has failed. The buck stops at the White House, not anywhere else. After the midterm results come in, it would be useful to see which of the candidates favoured by him won, and which of the Republican candidates who distanced themselves from him did.

House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has vowed to make the impeachment of President Trump his first priority, should the Democrats once again seize control of the House of Representatives. There is much that Jeffries can talk about, from sweetheart deals for those close to the White House accompanied by unconcern for the ordinary voter. Or the tatters that the Trump foreign policy is in, changing course on China and Japan to the benefit of the former and the cost of the latter. The European Union is in a trade deficit with the PRC of over a billion Euro every day of the year. The US trade deficit with China balloons even as friendly countries feel the backlash of Trump policies. Indian citizens have played a great role in maintaining US supremacy over China in the field of tech and Artificial Intelligence, yet these are precisely the individuals whom Trump wants to squeeze out of the US.

For the Allies, handling Trump is looked as akin to handling dynamite, which could go off in an explosion at any time because of some issue major only to the ego of President Trump. Once again the Nobel Committee has disappointed him by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize not to Trump but to Navi Pillai, former UN Human Rights Commissioner. With a record in office marked by wars, it is difficult to understand how Trump can believe he would ever get the Nobel Peace Prize. In the world of today, the messaging of social media is a good pointer to the popularity or otherwise of a Head of Government, and the merest skimming through of different platforms shows how much of a liability President Trump has become to his own party and indeed country. He talks of Making America Great Again, yet his policies achieve the opposite effect, making the US a lesser force in global politics than it was on January 20, 2024 when Trump began his second term in the Oval Office.

Another fact is that Trump speaks of the Democrats "stealing elections", yet by seeking to restrict voting numbers, it seem as though the cap would fit Trump perfectly. The signs of a fading political career are first mapped on social media platforms, and here the signs are clear, that Trump is now a liability for his own party. Healthcare has been gutted, welfare measures have been sharply reduced, affecting several Republican voters, few of whom are millionaires, forget about being billionaires. IICE tactics have taken on ruthless sheen that singles out Hispanics and Black Americans, losing much of the support he had captured in 2024. Tump believes he knows it all, and seems to believe that the people should work for those in power rather than the other way about. What the US public feels about such a Presidential mindset will become clear on the night of November 4 when counting closes and results come out.