RE: The premise of this article is incorrect starting with the first paragraph.
Ok, the Republicans took over the House by an underwhelming majority ( much less than expected ). There’s potentially a loss of one more congressional seat in NY with clamors for liar and scam artist George Santos to step down.
They lost a virtual tie in the senate, with a leftist, disabled man elected as senator from Pennsylvania. Now, the Senate is controlled by Democrats who don’t need Kamala to be the tie breaker.
Governor’s races were MIXED. All these when the vast majority of the country polled tell us that this nation is headed in the wrong direction.
You don’t consider that a catastrophe?
The clear message is that people who think the country is headed in the wrong direction want different Democrats to fix it.
The Republican brand is unsalvageable in large swaths of the country. Trump's success in 2016 was based on stealing blue collar Democrat votes in Rust Belt states - offering them a de facto third party option. Voters saw Trump as that "different Democrat" and disregarded the (R) after his name - a loophole that Democrats have now firmly closed with ballot harvesting and naked fraud in Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia.
The electoral math looks like this:
There are really only three gold-colored "battleground" states this time - I am optimistically giving GA to the GOP. A DeSantis would have to win both AZ and WI to win in 2024.