One White House operative 'walked to the gallows' as Trump seeks midterm scapegoat: report

White House aides are serving up a scapegoat to blame if Republicans get hammered in the midterms, and they’ve settled on the mastermind behind the GOP’s redistricting plan.Republican operatives privately say the real problem is President Donald Trump himself – he started a war with Iran in an election year, prices went up, and voters turned on the party – but aides know they can’t say that publicly or to his face, sources told Wired.“Clearly it’s the president’s fault,” one operative told Wired’s Inner Loop newsletter.Instead, sources say attention has turned to James Blair, the White House deputy chief of staff and political strategist who ran turnout strategy for Trump’s 2024 campaign and came back to lead the midterm effort.Blair’s signature move was pushing several states to redraw their congressional maps early. Even accounting for the Iran war, Republicans expected the plan to net roughly 10 to 15 House seats,...