WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Joe Gruters told Breitbart News exclusively that he is “cautiously optimistic” about Republican chances to hold their U.S. House and U.S. Senate majorities next November.

In a lengthy interview at RNC headquarters on Capitol Hill, Gruters explained that if Republicans execute on the mechanical operations of voter turnout and election integrity, he is confident they can defy historical trends and hold their majorities. What’s more, Gruters said that Republicans actually having a leader in President Donald Trump — as compared with Democrats who are essentially leaderless and visionless as radical leftists seize power in their party — bodes well for the chances of GOP candidates up and down the ticket.

“We’re two and 39 in off cycle elections — that’s the incumbent party in charge of the White House. But the difference is we have a president that’s as committed to winning as they get,” Gruters told Breitbart News. “All the guy does is win. He’s a winner across the board, and I think that the candidates are going to be able to ride on his back all the way through the midterms. We have a solid strategy from using his positions that he’s championed with the Big, Beautiful Bill. If you look at what he’s been able to accomplish over the first 250 days — no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, additional child tax credit, all the small business advantages we got in terms of depreciation, expensing and helping these businesses across the country. Then you look at the fact that we have the president of peace with peace deals. Now you have the fact of his efforts to go in and clean up the cities, from a law and order perspective. If you go in and look at what he’s done across the board on all fronts. But from a strategy standpoint it’s very simple. From a party standpoint, we’re going to focus on the fundamentals, and that’s registering voters, turning voters out, and protecting the vote. Election integrity is by far what the president talks to me most about, and trying to make sure that we get everything right. We have 92 active lawsuits across the country. We used to play more of a reactive game, but now we’ve been a lot more active and going after some of the cases where we think we win and where we have to defend. That’s red states, blue states, purple states, and that’s dealing with cleaning up voter lists, making sure we have equal access for poll watchers and workers, making sure we don’t allow illegal aliens to vote, whether it’s any type of ballot integrity issue itself, on and on and on. We’re not facing the DNC in these lawsuits. We’re facing these third party groups, these left-wing organizations — and it’s the Republican Party, the Republican National Committee, that’s going out there and doing all that work on behalf of the overall umbrella.”

Holding the U.S. House majority will be the most difficult task for Republicans next year, as an already-slim majority faces the historical trends of a midterm election usually seeing the pendulum swing back the other way. But, Gruters made it clear he thinks this is doable for the GOP in 2026. As he sat with Breitbart News, he held up a list of what he said were 46 competitive House races nationwide. Most of the districts on that list are seats currently held by Democrats. Before even discussing the mid-decade redistricting battles playing out right now, if Republicans can hold some of their tough-fought seats and flip some Democrat-held seats, the