Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s visit and speech to Michigan voters foreshadowed what comes next in the United States.

Schmidt, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, said Trump’s comments reflected growing Republican concern about the midterms and suggested that MAGA will lose in November. He added that the aftermath would mark the start of something new, especially as former President Joe Biden prepares to release his new book, "Promise Me, America."

"This should be the beginning of the Democratic presidential campaign," Schmidt said.

He predicted that the campaign would be about one year and two months in the making, with the New Hampshire primary on the horizon.

Schmidt said the timing would be significant, particularly as Trump tries to make gains among voters and promote his economy. He pointed specifically to Trump’s remarks in Michigan on Monday.

"The American people learned something about Trump," Schmidt said. "He's their parent. At least in the sense that we owe more to Trump than we do our parents. The issue here isn't that he said it out loud; it's that this is a thought that crossed his brain and came out of his mouth."

He quoted Trump as saying, "I've done more for you than your parents. Your parents are good. I'm not going to knock your parents. That I can tell you, and they would agree with me; wherever they may be, they would agree."

Schmidt said Trump’s reason for visiting Michigan was clear.

"He went there to tell a story, a fable, a lie, to the faces of the people who live the lie," Schmidt said. "He went there to say 'this economy is great.' Really, for who?"

He also criticized Trump, his sons and his family for getting rich off the presidency through crypto schemes, defense technology and private prison businesses. Schmidt’s comments came as Trump continues to use campaign stops to defend his economic record and court voters in battleground states, where such messages are likely to remain central to the political fight.

Schmidt predicted that 99 days from now, the political landscape would look different.

"Democrats are going to take power," Schmidt said. "Not because they're popular but because they're the only party with a lifeboat on the sinking America that Trump is pulling down into the abyss. So the American people will get on board and give them a chance, while despising them. That is part of the peculiar rhythm of American politics these days."

Schmidt said that eventually a new leader would emerge, likely outside Washington, D.C., from among the "statesmen and women waiting for their chance to shine in a rotten and wretched era."

"But know this," Schmidt said. "Things are getting worse. Trump is becoming more deranged. And what went on in Michigan is a preview of worse to come."