With the midterm campaign entering its final stretch and Election Day less than a month away, frustration inside the Republican Party is increasingly turning inward — and two of President Donald Trump's most important political advisers are now bearing the brunt of it.

CJ Warnke, a Democratic strategist, said on X on Wednesday that Republicans were "p—— off" at James Blair and Chris LaCivita.

The source of the anger: Blair and LaCivita, who are helping lead Trump's congressional campaign effort, traveled to Republika Srpska — the Serb-majority region of Bosnia and Herzegovina — ahead of elections there to advise its government, which is aligned with Russia. Republika Srpska is one of two autonomous entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina, a structure dating to the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War in 1995.

Politico's Playbook highlighted the Republican reaction on Wednesday, reporting that the episode has not gone over well inside a party whose candidates now face an increasingly difficult political environment.

One source told Playbook's Megan Messerly: "We are out here fighting for our lives and these dudes are in some random ass country made up of too many consonants no one has ever heard of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars while telling all of us to chill out because they've got it. It's legitimately shocking."

The episode is particularly sensitive because of the two men's roles. Blair runs MAGA Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC expected to spend heavily in the congressional elections, while LaCivita — Trump's 2024 co-campaign manager — serves as a senior adviser to the organization. According to The New York Times, MAGA Inc. had $415 million on hand at the end of August. Super PACs may raise and spend unlimited amounts so long as they operate independently of candidates' campaigns — the framework that makes a fund of that size possible.

The Times reported that Blair and LaCivita each received hundreds of thousands of dollars through a Washington law firm retained by the Republika Srpska government.

A White House source reportedly told Messerly: "Not a good look. I think Chris is doing what Chris has always done — and my guess is after 2 years on the campaign and 2 more in the WH James wanted a taste of [money] … and honestly I think it may p—— DJT off."

A representative of MAGA Inc. pushed back on the criticism, saying the two men continued to take part in the U.S. campaign even while they were overseas.

"James and Chris hosted a team call with race captains on Saturday morning to go over recent survey data," spokesman Alex Pfeiffer told the Times.

Republicans, meanwhile, have little room for distractions, with races once regarded as relatively safe now turning competitive in the campaign's final weeks.

This week, the Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas Senate race from Lean Republican to Toss Up and moved a number of other significant contests toward Democrats. Jessica Taylor, editor of the Cook Senate report, said Trump had become "a drag across the board even in deep red states," citing high fuel prices and persistent cost-of-living pressure.

The Blair-LaCivita controversy also lands amid months of internal GOP discontent over the party's midterm strategy. According to a Bloomberg report in April, Republican operatives and members of Congress had already begun searching for someone to blame after setbacks caused by redistricting had complicated the party's plans, and a great deal of that frustration was directed at Blair.

It is not the first time the pair has drawn internal fire. Blair and LaCivita reportedly responded to leaks from a Republican strategy meeting by criticizing the attendees and then requiring them to sign non-disclosure agreements.

With Election Day now less than a month away, annoyance has swung back toward the pair just as the political map continues to expand. The debate over who should be in charge of overseeing their overseas assignments is reemerging as a symptom of a wider problem confronting Republicans: as a growing number of races demand attention and funding, party operatives are increasingly divided over who bears responsibility for the party's position. In the weeks that remain, the most concrete markers will be any further Cook ratings shifts and the pace at which MAGA Inc. begins deploying its fund in the growing number of competitive contests.