Trump reveals top issues GOP should focus on to secure midterms victory: 'I've never been more confident'

By Fox News · Fox News

President Donald Trump outlined five key items he believes will tip the upcoming midterm elections in the GOP’s favor — if Republicans can muscle them through Congress. "No transgender mutilation surgery for our children," Trump told an audience at the Republican Members' Issues Conference. "Voter ID, citizenship [verification], mail-in ballots, we don't want men playing in women's sports." " It's the best of Trump. Those are the best of Trump. This is the number one priority, it should be, for the House," Trump said. Trump’s exhortations to Republican lawmakers come as the GOP wages an uphill campaign to hang on to a controlling majority in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Trump framed his legislative priorities as a way for Republicans to capitalize on popular demands within the GOP base that would increase their chances of preserving a Republican governing trifecta. HOUSE REPUBLICANS PUSH ELECTION OVERHAUL WITH VOTER ID, MAIL-IN BALLOT CHANGES AHEAD OF MIDTERMS Currently, Republicans hold just four more seats than Democrats in the House of Representatives. The GOP holds six more than Democrats in the Senate . To keep the numbers in their favor, Republicans will need to beat historical trends. In the vast majority of past cases, parties that capture the White House in presidential elections face blowback in the midterms. Notably, the last time a majority party gained seats in both chambers of Congress in the midterms came under the Bush administration in 2002, following devastating attacks on the World Trade Center. REPUBLICANS, TRUMP RUN INTO SENATE ROADBLOCK ON VOTER ID BILL Trump said he believes Republicans have a shot at bucking the trend come November if they focus on his list. "It'll guarantee the midterms," Trump said of his legislative priorities. Republicans have already taken strikes towards two of them through the SAVE America Act , a piece of legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and cast a ballot. T…