The governor-elect wants $17 billion from the Rainy Day Fund for one-time $1,500 checks. Texas saved that money for hard times, not a campaign promise. The Senate is still Republican, so it goes through the Legislature first. Permanent property tax relief beats a one-time check.
WATCH: Rep. Dan Crenshaw DESTROYS Rep. Jamie Raskin for BLOCKING three affordability bipartisan bills ahead of the midterms in a HEATED debate
When Democrats run out of answers, they yell Trump corruption! If those same bills pass now that the votes are counted, who's going to ask Democrats why they blocked them before?
"You guys cynically blocked legislation, bipartisan legislation that would reduce— that would help the affordability issue and that would tackle the corruption issue, that would help national security, things that you guys agreed on. You passed your own stuff. I don't know what bill you're talking about. Stop Insider Trading Act, Ratepayer Protection Act, FISA. You guys blocked all of that because the midterms were coming. And I bet you're going to be in favor of it after the midterms. Do not lie and say anything different."
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
🚨 MIDTERM ELECTION FRAUD 🚨
At 8:11am this morning, someone else went IN PERSON to my local polling place and stole my vote.
They forged my signature and were able to cast a ballot in my name because we don't ask for VOTER ID.
To make matters worse, the ONLY form of verification we apparently ask for in PA is your street address.
So did I have to provide my street address? No! They provided it to me.
All you have to say is, "yep, that's me." and boom, you get to vote.
Why are we still letting this happen in this country!?
Get out there and vote, and remember to vote red. The only people that are taking advantage of voter fraud in this way are those that do NOT want legitimate elections.
Let's flood the country red and fix this problem once and for all! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Democrats might have stolen my one vote but if this message finds you and gets you to go out there and vote RED, we can turn my one vote into thousands!! God bless the USA 🇺🇸
Mid-term elections
November 3rd, 2026
Macungie, Pennsylvania
District 6
Polling Place: Church of the Good Shepherd
TALARICO TAPES: Williamson County Democratic Chair and James Talarico’s Girlfriend’s Family Reveal to O’Keefe That Talarico Is Portraying Himself as a Moderate to Win Over Texas Voters, but Privately Holds Very Progressive Positions on Border Security, Immigration, Abortion, and Transgender Surgeries for Minors
“James [Talarico], he's not going middle.”
“He's [Talarico] definitely going to play the middle ground because he's in Texas. but he is a lot more progressive on it [abortion].”
“Don't put too much stock into border security comments…“He [Talarico] and I have spoken about these issues.”
“He [Talarico] probably said that to try to make himself appear more centrist. He's very liberal…but we've got to get elected, so we can do something.”
@jamestalarico@texasdemocrats@wilcotnyd@wilcotxgov@kimg_atx
OH. MY. GOSH.
@DonHuffines lost his bid for comptroller but boyyy did he grow some cajones to drop these truths on Texas!
Huffines bought Epstein’s Zorro Ranch last year + was endorsed by Trump.
Tonight he says the incumbents DGAF about voters.
Ouch! 😳
South Carolina flipped blue for the first time in 30 years.
This is a result of a president failing to keep his promises and turning his back on his own word.
Republicans will win South Carolina in 2028, Darline is a horrible candidate.
There is still over 4 million votes here in the great state of Texas.
@realDailyWire should have not called the race for James Talarcio.
Do not fall for fear mongering.
If you live in Texas, do NOT vote for @jamestalarico for senate.
This man wants to centralize YOUR healthcare system, making YOUR choice for treatment obstructed.
He believes that God is non-binary and says there are SIX GENDERS.
Vote for common sense. @KenPaxtonTX for sen.