A top White House aide admitted that the GOP faces trouble ahead, a rare public acknowledgement of the party’s vulnerabilities after a difficult election week.

On Politico’s The Conversation podcast hosted by Dasha Burns, White House deputy chief of staff James Blair said the GOP’s base has become less dependable without President Donald Trump on the ballot.

“There’s a group of people that have red jerseys on, and there’s a group of people that have blue jerseys on. And the ones with the red jerseys are a little less inclined to vote, so that’s a problem for us,” he said.

The remarks from Blair, 36, the political director for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, came in the wake of this week’s stinging election defeats for the GOP, which delivered “a bleak and bracing look of what facing

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