Posted on 11/05/2025 10:45:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Tuesday night’s elections might have liberals popping the champagne, but the whole “Trump repudiation” narrative is way off the mark. Sure, Democrats swept big races in heavily blue states and cities — Virginia, New Jersey, New York City — and grabbed wins that the media is hyping as a Republican bloodbath. Abigail Spanberger snagged Virginia’s governorship, Mikie Sherrill took New Jersey’s, Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, won the New York City mayor’s office, and Jay Jones, who’s been openly wishing death on political foes, secured Virginia’s attorney general spot. The headlines scream doom for the GOP heading into the 2026 midterms, but that’s a shallow read.
Here’s the real scoop: these races were in deep blue territories, hardly bellwethers for the national mood or the midterms next year. Bill O’Reilly hit the nail on the head in his analysis on NewsNation, bluntly declaring that these election results have no bearing on next year’s midterms.
“This has nothing to do with the midterms. Zero,” O’Reilly said flatly when Chris Cuomo tried to connect current political controversies to next year’s races. The veteran broadcaster wasn’t being dismissive of politics; he was just pointing out that the landscape will look dramatically different by next fall. “So many things are going to happen between now and this time next year,” he continued. “It’s gonna be a completely different country than it is now.”
That tracks. Ever heard the expression “A week is an eternity in politics?” A couple of weeks ago, it looked like Jay Jones’s goose was cooked. All he needed was time. And time worked in his favor.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
It all comes back to what James Carville once said: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
For all the Beltway chatter about Trump’s rhetoric or foreign entanglements, we all know people typically vote with their wallets. If the tariffs stabilize prices and revive key industries, Trump’s Republican Party could enter the midterms with momentum. If not, Democrats will seize on the pain to try to claw back relevance in a Trump-dominated economy.
Trump has exactly one year to make Americans feel that the economy is working for them. The next midterm results will hinge on that economic reality, not on the blue wave wins in strongly Democratic states this week. Washington insiders and pundits would do well to remember this simple rule before declaring the 2026 midterms a lost cause for the GOP.
If the economy improves, if you go to the stores and things are cheaper, yes absolutely the GOP will win, but if they dont improve, if things stay as it is right now the GOP is going to lose the midterms badly and it wont matter how many seats they redistrict..people want what they had in Trumps first term, cheaper EVERYTHING, now look around, everything is so damn expensive..I dont know if its tariffs or what it is but everything is more money and Trump cant do what Biden did when he said “The border is secure” people saw that biden was lying, Trump cant do the same thing by saying “The economy is awesome” when its not..he is making the same mistake that Biden made and it will bite him in the ass unless he makes life better for everyone
Did you type this from your fainting couch?
If the country goes back to DEM then we get what we deserve.
3% inflation is barely above the long term historical rate. Calm down.
Trump’s secretary of the treasury, scott bessent, says he expects the economy to be growing at 4.5% with low inflation this time next year.
Given that capital investments in the USA in 2026 will be roughly 10 times capital investments in the USA in 2025 going from roughly 300 billion to between 2-3 trillion in 2026.... 4.5% growth rates seem pretty reasonable estimates.
Blue states will remain blue states however and maybe get bluer. Red states will remain red states and maybe get redder. Swing states will likely get redder.
Nope I typed it from my REALITY couch.
We need to crawl over broken glass to vote in 2026
Yep. People no longer have the border as the number 1 issue now that the border is closed, can't live on your laurels and now must focus on the economy. Promising trillions in new overseas investment falls flat until and unless it happens and effects the economy - which is years down the road, meaning too late. The shutdown will make matters worse - I'm not panicking, I'm a realist, the GOP is going backwards because it's not moving forwards.
I wonder what GOP participation in this election was.
3% isn't bad, it's that it on top of Biden's 10%. So the only way to make it up is to get it closer to 1-2% for a few years or more. Plus, wages haven't kept up - double whammy.
I didn’t even know any of these elections were in progress until a short time ago so they are unusually timed off year elections in heavily democrat strongholds
Don’t want to read too much into these elections but also don’t want to dismiss either
To win midterms, Trump has GOT to finish that ballroom, invade Venezuela and keep the Epstein secrets safe.
That is what people are wanting.
If losing 13 Republican seats last night in the Virginia House of Delegates doesn’t worry you, then you are an eternal optimist.
Claiming everything is fine for 2026 is whistling past the graveyard. We are in trouble in too many districts we cannot afford to lose and time is running out to turn things around. Denying there is a problem only makes the problem worse.
The incredible work President Trump has done will add immense value to the economy, but...people only see what is on their plate. They have short memories and shorter attention spans.
Most do not have the intellectual rigor to understand or extrapolate anything beyond their personal spheres.
Trump either gets inflation, employment and the impressions of economic disintegration under control, or he will lose.
As the left trumpets their successes, the political winds that have been in his favor throughout the world will shift.
He needs to concentrate on the electorate right now.
President Trump took over from Biden with America in a state of emergency and he has used emergency powers to turn things around
The massive investments he has lined up for America will start phasing in in 2026
Yeah but what happens if the Supreme Court overturns his tariffs and what happens, he has to give all the money back, that is going to bankrupt the country isnt it
Go on some of the liberal websites and see what they are saying. I’ve seen cheering for Mamdani because they hate Trump. If the economy fell through the floor they would still vote against Trump and the election last night showed it. The dems will unite under that.
Virginia, New Jersey, New York City
It’s like winning a Edsel with a bad transmission.
We need to crawl over broken glass to vote in 2026
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I voted in 2024 for obliteration and draining.
I wasn’t told in 2021 to wait till 2026.
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