Ipurgepeople

This doesn’t seem even remotely possible.

I’m done with Spanish

I don’t think the GOP truly grasped how badly they were fucking up. I talked to people who normally have ZERO interest in politics, and they were legitimately pissed off. They didn’t see the major reform they expected, and they were REALLY MAD about it. No true accountability. No true mass deportations. No meaningful decrease in the deficit. Lots of very long vacations and no work. No bills passed that REDUCED the government’s involvement in their lives. People are pissed off that they voted Trump into office and the GOP kept slow-walking every reform they wanted. Where were all the DOGE cuts that were promised? Where was the SAVE Act? Why didn’t we defund the Taliban? Why did bills pass the House and then disappear in the Senate? Why did the GOP keep funding left-wing NGOs that target and hate MAGA Republicans? Why were members of the GOP pushing for mass amnesty instead of mass deportations? People woke up, and they weren’t happy about it. People believed they voted for the Trump agenda, and instead, they felt like they got the same old Washington. Republicans in Congress didn’t produce tangible results, and they just discovered that frustration has consequences... ...but by the time they realized how deep-seated that frustration was, it was already too late. Republicans had EVERYTHING. The White House. The House. The Senate. ...and they totally blew it and people were pissed and voted like they were pissed, which sadly is the price of doing nothing when you had everything. Completely avoidable.

There is absolutely no circumstance where Senator Thune should remain in a leadership position. He obstructed President Trump’s agenda.

a 12 year old girl feeling like a ‘boy on the inside’ gets her hormones tested and WELL WOULD YA LOOK AT THAT 👀

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.