Former Obama Chief of Staff: Democrats Poised for 2006-Style Wave in 2026

Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Democrats are positioned for a 2006-style wave, citing a wartime president and mounting party energy.
Former Obama Chief of Staff: Democrats Poised for 2006-Style Wave in 2026
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks during a House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 23, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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Former Obama White House chief of staff and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said on March 30 that Democrats are positioned for a wave election in 2026, drawing parallels to 2006, when he chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the party flipped both chambers of Congress during the Iraq war.

“When one party controls both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there’s a law of physics that kicks in,” Emanuel said at a Politics and Eggs breakfast at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics.
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