According to new reporting from Politico, the showdown happened during a closed-door meeting on midterms messaging that was held by GOP political operatives James Blair, Alex Latcham, and pollster Tony Fabrizio. As the Daily Beast explains, Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) “cornered Trump’s team, demanding to know when the president would finally pivot from bashing fellow Republicans to targeting political opponents. The Montana lawmaker’s question captured a growing panic inside the GOP, where lawmakers are privately exasperated by Trump’s relentless feuds with other members of his party, even as vulnerable Democrats escape his wrath.” According to the Daily Beast, “Trump’s foreign policy obsessions have also hijacked his party’s political agenda. “Months later,” the Beast continues, “Trump has swapped Venezuela for an ongoing war in Iran — and voters are punishing Republicans for the fallout.