[volare737]

Well, you certainly have a point. I think back to Reagan carrying 49 states. That is absolutely impossible for Republican to ever do that again. IMPOSSIBLE.

In addition to the hard core blue states which I don’t need to mention, states that used to be Red like AZ, CO, VA, NV turned purple and are now blue or trending blue. Even states like Texas are starting to turn purple.

With the massive demographic changes and indoctrination by MSM, colleges, Hollywood, etc—there is a much better chance that democrats someday in the future will carry 49 states. At my age, though, I won’t be around to witness that.

[Wallace T.]

Remember that the Democrats had a 46 state landslide in 1936 and a 44 state landslide in 1964. The once Democratic Solid South is still solid, but solidly Republican. In contrast, the Northeast, which was once at least a 50-50 proposition, is now a dead zone for Republicans, except for Pennsylvania. As for the MSM and Hollywood, they are dying institutions, with popular opinion about them only a little better than drug dealers or Congress. The alphabet networks are viewed on a weekly basis by only 6% of the population in 2025. In 1980, that figure was around 33%. Hollywood is plagued with an inability to attract the audiences they did, in part due to the "woke" character but also because of the massive competition from other entertainment sources. Young white men are rejecting the educational brainwashing en masse, generally a good thing but unfortunately drawing them to fringe ideas, e.g., anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Granted, we lost badly Tuesday. However, it must be remembered that both Sears in Virginia and Ciatrelli in New Jersey ran not as MAGA but as moderates. Both underperformed Trump by 10 percentage points. If you look at pro-Trump counties, the turnout drop was worse there than in pro-Kamala counties. Compare deep red Ocean County, NJ with super blue Hudson County, NJ.

New York City was a lost cause but Trump was critical of the Republican (Sliwa) in the mayor's race even though he was more MAGA than Sears and Ciatrelli. The ground game by the GOP even in purple states like Pennsylvania and red states like Mississippi was poor, with little contact with potential voters. Additionally, don't discount fraud in the urban counties of New Jersey, Northern Virginia, Richmond and the Hampton Roads area. The Democrats may have had a win in the two East Coast states but wanted to run up the score as some sports coaches will, to add humiliation to defeat.

When you have this big a loss in professional or college sports, the coach is fired. President Trump must assure that competent people run the Republican National Committee and their counterparts at the state level.