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Posted on 07/27/2025 3:23:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The first rule of understanding Donald Trump is to never write him off. It’s no exaggeration to say he’s the most remarkable comeback kid of my lifetime: every time his political fate seems to be sealed, he always pulls back from disaster in the 11th hour.
I say this to add some context to what looks to be a genuinely dangerous situation for the Republican Party and the Maga project more generally. The Trump-Epstein scandal, now rolling on to week three, has proven itself seriously sticky for the administration. Figures across the Right-wing spectrum – from Karl Rove to Steve Bannon – are now warning that the Republicans will be under major electoral pressure come the 2026 mid-terms.
Trump has embarked on one of the most ambitious – and contentious – policy platforms in living memory. With a razor thin GOP majority already, if enough disappointed Republicans decide to stay at home, it could be sufficient to give the Democrats a significant victory, even without major switching between the parties.
There’s nuance here. Midterm elections are often bad for the incumbent, and rarely serve as a useful predictor for the future. Bill Clinton looked hopeless in 1994 after the “Republican revolution” – but does anyone now remember Bob Dole? Barack Obama faced a notorious “shellacking” in 2010, which led cocky Republicans to assume the 2012 presidential election was a shoe-in. Obama then cruised to victory. The dissipation of the promised 2022 “red wave” seemed to guarantee Ron DeSantis’ candidacy and resign Trump to the trash can of history. No need to tell you what happened next.
The point is that it can be hard to extract any obvious lessons from a mid-term performance. But that doesn’t stop politicians from trying.
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I don’t think they’re heading for wins. Their numbers are in the toilet. (Nice try, Guardian.)
YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!
Heard it somewhere.
The pubbies cannot get media coverage, nor can any conservative. So it is difficult to get their message out And campaign. And many people that vote for Trump tend to hate everyone else or just don’t care about anyone else, so they don’t show up for midterms, letting the Dems win. Democrats especially women always turn out.
Male turnout is not reliable for either party.
If Republicans show up we will crush the Dems. If they don’t, we will lose.
..... if enough disappointed Republicans decide to stay at home.....
Yeah, that is not happening.
New Jersey has been solid Democrat for some time.
Virginia leans Democrat now, but for a long time, they just voted the other party from the party of the president elected the year before.
Male turnout is not reliable for either party.
If Republicans show up we will crush the Dems. If they don’t, we will lose.
Charlie Kirk is going to have to get the guys to stop playing video games for a little while and get out and vote. It worked in 2024.
Cool, thanks!
Typical Izvestia BS...
I’ve yet to meet a single Republican who cares the least bit about Epstein...
He’s dead and gone...
Democrats WILL show up for no other reason than to launch another impeachment.
If Epstein mattered SO damn much to people than Biden would have released it himself and got re-elected
That's because at the time, the GOP had no Babe Ruth, Ted Williams or Duke Snider. All we had were bat boys. And then our nominee took a dive.
Before MAGA, we had the Tea Party.
If Trump had run against Obama in 2012, he would have a chance in beating him.
Obama was a fraud. He did not fulfill his promises when he ran in 2008. He was supposed to be a unifer. A centrist.
Poppy needs some schooling in common sense
In President Trump’s first term, historically he should have lost the Senate during the mid-term elections but he didn’t. I remember Rush talking about it at the time.
More like Magic 8-ball prediction.
Don’t waste this time. Get things done!
This article is a couple of days behind the curve. Ghislaine Maxwell just spilled the beans on about 100 people to the DOJ, and the Democrats are somehow surprised and quite unhappy. That doesn’t sound to me like those kind of revelations are going to do the Democrats any good in the midterm elections.
2021: Youngkin won in Virginia and the Republican lost by a razor thin margin no one saw coming...
Twelves months later Republicans were supposed to wipe out the rats- in part due the VA & NJ results- they did anything but...
There were several special elections in the lead up to last November the rats won and the media claimed the GOP was in trouble in November, 2024- they were anything but...
Why is she so disliked??
Well let’s see NO ideas Americans want and plenty we don’t want. No money. They will lose seats in new redistricting, even CNN counts 218 safe Republican seats. Q-poll 19% approval of rodents, and Fractal will once again keep the rodents from cheating as it did last year.
And the rodents win BIGLY? Maybe in a Twilight Zone episode but no way in real life.
Stop breathing hard Surrender Monkeys this is a joke.
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