President Donald Trump has been spending heavily in recent weeks in an effort to avert the Republican Party's worst-case scenario in the midterm elections — but according to one swing-state candidate, the spree may be producing his own "ultimate humiliation."

The assessment came from Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta and a former senior adviser in the Biden administration, who appeared on The Daily Beast Podcast on Sunday. Bottoms is the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, where she is running against Republican Rick Jackson, a billionaire healthcare CEO.

Georgia — a closely divided battleground that decided the 2020 presidential race by fewer than 12,000 votes — has been heavily targeted for spending by the GOP and Trump-affiliated PACs, and Bottoms noted that the state's major races have become emblematic of midterm momentum shifting toward Democrats. Sen. Jon Ossoff, once viewed by Republicans as one of the easiest Democrats to beat, has now surged well ahead of his opponent in the polls, fueling speculation about a possible 2028 presidential run. Both races will be settled in November, when the midterm elections offer the first nationwide electoral test of Trump's second term.

In Bottoms' view, Trump's push for victories in Georgia — and his appeals to voters to act as though he himself were on the ballot this year, even though he is constitutionally barred from being elected to a third term — is setting him up for a bruising failure.

"You've got Senator Ossoff on the ballot who, going into the election cycle, was the number one target for Republicans," Bottoms told host Joanna Coles. "He has a pretty wide margin over his opponent. And then you have our race, and I am running against a billionaire who has put his own money into this race, and just about every poll is showing us tied. So it speaks to the momentum. It speaks to, I think, the nation really wanting change. And in many ways, when Trump says, imagine that he is on the ballot, people are doing just that."

"And not in the way that he was hoping," Coles responded.

Coles also pressed Bottoms on how concerned she is about Trump going to extreme lengths to interfere with a potential midterm blue wave, noting his recent refusal to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act — a federal law that allows a president to deploy U.S. military forces on domestic soil — in an effort to seize voting machines.

"It concerns me deeply because we have already seen the FBI on the ground in Fulton County, which is the county that Atlanta is in, and more than 250 FBI agents have already been dispatched by Trump's DOJ," Bottoms said. "So, we can't not be concerned. We just have to be prepared. Not just in Georgia, across the country. We have to stay vigilant."