[MtnClimber]

A 9% victory is certainly comfortable and I am glad Van Epps won. I do have concerns that the Republican party does not have a good voter turnout system. And going into the 2026 midterms they are going to need it since the party in power usually loses.

I plan to contact my county Republican Party office to volunteer for the 2026 election.

[Gay State Conservative]

If the Rats take the House next year DJT will be impeached at least three more times.

[packrat35]

Yet TN is still one of the reddest states in the country. Losing by 9% is still a big loss.

After 2026, TN will still be one of the reddest states in the country. This is mostly blather from the democrats to divide us.

[Chewbarkah]

Accurate assessments and excellent proposal we all should follow (volunteering for 2026 — the sooner the better). In my area, State/local Republicans are invisible at election time, with barely known candidates and little or nothing to get loyalists to turn out and vote.

The 2025 elections in VA, NJ, and TN, confirm what we already know: People turn out to vote when they have a sense of crisis. Without it, they sit it out (due to laziness and avoidance of responsibility). Dems see Trump and MAGA as a crisis, so they turn out in droves to block reform. Reps feel more secure, believing (pretending) Trump and MAGA are rolling back the threats to American life and values, so they skip the by-elections until crisis is back in their faces. To get turnout, R’s need to convey that elections are always a crisis, with much lost or much gained. They could start with strong candidates and those already in office supporting a clear agenda.

[AZJeep]

I do have concerns that the Republican party does not have a good voter turnout system.
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For years, the traditional Republicans were very disciplined and showed on every election. The off elections were democrat problems. But now, Democrats build big ballot (not even voters, but ballots) turning machine, while Republican kind of rely on their voters to show up like they always did.
The new Trump republicans, unfortunately, are not that disciplined.
We need to catch up.
Scott Pressler and especially Charlie Kirk (RIP) are doing excellent job, but they are actually being somewhat looked down in some Rep. circles!
We need to double, triple, ... that effort!

Yes guys, go and volunteer!
And if the Rep party are doing nothing, join other orgs like Turning point USA!

[ckilmer]

Compare 9% to trumps 22% last year. The pattern is the same as no and pa in early Nov. far fewer people show up to vote for republicans when Trump is nor on the ballot