A report by Zeteo finds that the largely silent class of Republican megadonors and Trump administration allies did not stay quiet for long after Tuesday's midterm elections, quickly turning their blame toward the president himself.

"Following their election night 'bloodbath' Tuesday, a wide array of prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill, within the Trump-Vance administration, and in the high-roller donor class are now ready to vent to us about how it is, quite simply, President Donald 'Trump's f—— fault,' as one very [PO'd] GOP megadonor put it," reported Zeteo writers Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez.

Nearly everyone who vented to the outlet blamed the midterm losses on Trump's war on Iran, with most saying the conflict should never have been launched. Suebsaeng wrote that the sources "all blamed rising costs that their infallible god-emperor Trump helped jack up, having won in 2024 with his blatantly hollow campaign vows to bring them down."

A significant number of sources also blamed — though they will not dare do so publicly — Stephen Miller, Trump's White House deputy chief of staff and his most important sidekick when it comes to the domestic policy agenda.

"He screwed us big time," one longtime GOP operative who worked on competitive 2026 races said of Miller.

Miller oversees the federal immigration crackdowns that led to the deaths of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. That operative and several other plugged-in national and battleground-state Republican sources specifically blamed the administration's mass-deportation sprees for caving in the president's poll numbers. Suebsaeng wrote that Trump's immigration policy unleashed a "tidal wave of lawlessness, state violence and terror, racial profiling, and the intimidation efforts against legal immigrants and U.S. citizens."

Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance have suggested the war explains the GOP's historic losses. But sources and internal polling indicate that Texas slipped through Republicans' fingers largely because of slippage among Hispanic voters, exacerbated by the administration's relentless rounding up of immigrants — "including the many people whose Trump-backing family and friends were convinced they would be spared by Trump and Miller's mass-deportation and mass-detention regime." That dynamic, in tandem with Trump-style high prices, created a line of blue along Texas' border with Mexico.

Not everybody is critical of the administration's tactics. Democrats like Adam Hamilton — who won three southwest Kansas counties that Trump carried by 30 and 40 points in 2024 — praised Miller's handiwork. "Cannot understate Stephen Miller's impact on tonight's results," said Tyson Brody, a campaign spokesperson for Hamilton, writing on X, after the Methodist pastor won a Kansas Senate seat for Democrats for the first time since 1932.

Despite the recriminations, Miller is not going anywhere, according to Suebsaeng and the outlet's sources. "If there is bloodletting after this midterms bloodbath, expect him to remain unscathed. Such is the pact he has with Trump," Suebsaeng wrote.