A new fundraising email sent to President Donald Trump's MAGA base has laid bare how much the president is "panicking" over their support, according to an Alternet report drawing on an analysis published in The i Paper.

Writing in The i Paper on Sunday, veteran D.C. correspondent Simon Marks argued that Trump "knows he is in trouble" as the midterm elections creep closer. He cited what he called "one of his final fundraising pitches to supporters," which featured "a picture of the MAGA leader boarding a train and waving goodbye from a railway station's platform."

"In just 1 week, we might have to say goodbye to each other forever," the email pleaded. "Do not make me say goodbye... [On] day 1, Democrats will file the Articles of Impeachment against me for the THIRD TIME. But this time they will have the votes – the votes to lock me out of the White House and throw away the key."

Yet, as Marks argued, "nothing in that fundraising plea is true." He noted, first and foremost, that Democrats remain largely "skittish" about pursuing another impeachment effort against Trump, given that actually removing a president from office would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

The "third time" framing points to Trump's record: the House impeached him twice during his first term — in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine and in 2021 on a charge of incitement tied to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — and the Senate acquitted him both times without reaching the two-thirds majority required for removal.

"Not even the most optimistic of Democratic strategists believes that the party will come close to that kind of landslide electoral outcome on 3 November – election day," Marks explained.

He added: "There is no evidence that Trump writes any of these emails himself. But they reflect a last-ditch Republican effort to get out the vote in the midterms by intimating that his presidency might end if Trump's loyal grassroots supporters sit on their hands and stay home. It also comes after recent campaign appearances by the President for Republican candidates in traditionally red states including Texas, Kansas and Ohio, an acknowledgement of serious fears that they could be ousted even in these Republican strongholds."

Midterm elections, held halfway through a president's term, put every one of the House's 435 seats and roughly a third of the Senate's 100 seats on the ballot, with control of both chambers at stake.

A separate email recently warned Trump supporters that a Democratic Congress would "reverse everything I've done to Make America Great Again over the past two years" — another claim that falls apart in the face of reality, according to the report.

"In reality, the Democrats would be constrained in power, even if they win majorities in both houses of Congress," he wrote. "Trump, as President, will retain veto powers over any legislation they send to his desk, and it is highly unlikely that enough Republicans in the House and Senate would turn against him to provide the two-thirds majority needed in both chambers to override their use."

He concluded: "The President himself is already offering a preview of what his presidency might look like after the votes are counted next month. His threat to launch intensive fresh air strikes on Iran could be the first chapter of his post-midterm presidency, and an indicator of his determination more broadly to go for broke. Unless, of course, his fundraising email is trying to tell us all something, and he really does have a train ticket to convey him out of Washington in his breast pocket."