Donald Trump is planning to deploy one of the architects of his 2024 victory to run the midterm war room.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair could soon be pulled from the West Wing to run Trump's political operation ahead of the crucial November elections.  

It comes as a new JL Partners/Daily Mail poll puts the President's approval at just 43 percent - down three points - with the Iran war emerging as the top drag on his numbers.

Blair's potential leave of absence was confirmed Friday, which would free him to run the nationwide ground game for the GOP.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said Blair was irreplaceable, telling Politico: 'James is a top lieutenant of the President's and has been invaluable to me for the better part of a decade. That is the frame from which we are considering our options. 

'Consideration of the best way to deploy a most valuable political asset for success in the midterms is a common sense and obvious thing to do.'

The warnings in the polls come as leading conservatives have blasted Trump for the war in Iran as it brings pain to American families at the pump - with gas prices rocketing to $4.20 per gallon, up by more than a dollar since the war started.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter ripped Trump this week for 'committing war crimes', while former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene predicted the GOP is 'going to get slaughtered in the midterms.'

Blair, 36, was the political director of both the Trump 2024 campaign and the Republican National Committee simultaneously, a rare dual role that put him at the controls of the ground operation that delivered Trump's sweeping victory.

Trump gave him the nickname 'Brilliant James', referring to him as a 'total political genius' during an address at a staff Christmas party last year.

His data-driven strategy focused on low-propensity voters that the campaign credited as central to expanding Trump's coalition across battleground states.

'If you don't talk to people, they don't vote,' Blair said after the election. 

'Collecting voters into our contact programs was simple in theory but hard to execute - and it worked.'

Trump is betting on a single general with a unified command, a sharp contrast to Biden's 2022 midterm operation, which was run by a loose committee of burnt-out insiders.

A JL Partners/Daily Mail poll conducted on April 8 found more than a third (38 percent) say their view of Trump has become more negative in recent weeks, with the Iran war the top culprit, followed by concerns about the economy amid rocketing inflation.

Almost half (47 percent) say the economy is worsening, though that figure is down seven points since late March. Separately, 36 percent of voters blame Republicans for the ongoing partial DHS shutdown. 

Prices jumped jumped by almost 1 percent last month, pushing the yearly inflation rate up to 3.3 percent, its highest level in two years.

The Iran war sent energy prices soaring, up nearly 11 percent, according to the March inflation report.

But this 'war tax' is hitting more than just your gas tank: grocery bills are creeping up again, with food prices gaining 2 percent over the last year.

'The message is clear: inflation remains sticky - and that optimistically assumes the energy surge proves to be temporary,' Brent Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro, told the Daily Mail.