Too many Trump voters sit home when Trump himself is not on the ballot. It's been an ongoing problem since 2018. Democrats, meanwhile, get out there for midterm and special elections.
This has been an ongoing problem for MAGA since 2018. Even the GOP wins in Florida today were tarnished by much smaller margins of victory than Trump enjoyed in November.
This needs to be rectified before November '26. If Trump loses the House, his MAGA agenda is pretty much over. He'll spend the final two years of his presidency fighting off impeachment hearings and special investigations.
Trump voters are low propensity voters.
Some of Bush/McCain/Romney voters became Democratic now.
Charlie Kirk is going to have to convert Gen Z, especially young men into high propensity voters.
He’ll spend the final two years of his presidency fighting off impeachment hearings and special investigations.
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What else is new?
That’s all the democrats have in their playbook.
This will be an unpopular opinion, I know, but I will state it anyway and just hope it gets at least considered.
Too many people assume everybody who voted for DJT - in 2016, in 2020, and 2024 are 100% on board with everything he says and does.
This is simply not the case. I know this because *I* am one of them. I am a firm believer in free trade and capitalism and I an old school Reaganaut on foreign policy and the US’s place as the leader of western democracy.
I grit my teeth and accept the stuff I don’t like because the alternative offers me *nothing* and at least I know I will get *some* things I do like (fewer regulations, smaller government, lower taxes).
So - I vote how I vote, which is ironically how I’ve always voted because I mostly do not NEED nor EXPECT the government to “save me” or “do” anything for me. Mostly, I want it to leave me the hell alone. Needing mommy - or daddy - government to “fix things”? That was always a leftist idea - and it’s always been the biggest reason I can’t ever see voting the other way.
Don’t worry about my vote - bash me all to heck if you like, my future votes are pretty much locked in because the R is always gonna be the ‘least bad option’, at worst. But I just want to warn: I know colleagues, I know neighbors, I know friends - people I’ve lobbied, cajoled, and convinced to pull the R lever who don’t feel the same way.
I think - purely from an elections standpoint - President Trump has really done an amazing job bringing in voters to the R fold that I’d have scoffed at 10-20+ years ago.
However, I have to say - I can make my peace with a big tent, but the more MAGA denounces the so-called RINOs (like me, to some extent I guess) who are pure capitalists (which requires free trade) and even yes, believe the proper US place in the world is as the leader of global democracies... the tougher elections like this one are gonna get.
Just my 2 cents. Which won’t even get you a cup of coffee.