José Montoya

Catholic, conservative, gay but NOT LGBT.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The American people do not owe “loyalty” to any politician. They owe loyalty to us. Your loyalty is to your nation. You support politicians when they do the right thing and criticize them when they do the wrong thing. They serve you. Not the other way around.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

@dlogicconserv Agreed. Muslims shouldn’t be able to immigrate to the United States.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

But we lost Texas. Let that sink in… Texas has fallen all because the president had to get us embroiled in another middle eastern conflict . He played by George Bush’s rules, but the results will be so much worse than before.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

HOLY COW!

I’M SCREAMING!

Republicans just flipped the governorship of Guam from 🟦🔜🟥.

Keep going — don’t stop for a gosh darn second.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

@TxGuy2022 It helped me take my mind off the election 😂. At least I was able to sleep.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

@dlogicconserv I actually think NM may beyond saving. The culture of poverty and the addiction to leftist politics… we are like the Venezuela of the United States.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

So here in New Mexico we have once again elected a communist to be our governor. The only difference this time around is that the new commie has an IQ about 50 points lower than the current commie. Time to get my latin ass to a red state.

https://t.co/Gme3ZAY7i9

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

@SilverMASAKI Thanks 🙂

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

I hate that for a long time, I have agreed with Clark on this point.

[Clark Lawson @clarksonlawson_]

This is what happens when your coalition becomes subservient to an egotistical leader who has no ideological foundation upon which to govern.

I tried to warn y’all back in 2024 that this was where MAGA was heading.

The GOP has lost all its momentum.

Thank your cult leader.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

@Antideluview I’m not evangelical. I’m just not a sociopath like you.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

And the democrats have more of this evil in store for our nation. America has fallen.

[Jack @jackunheard]

BREAKING: Virginia has passed an abortion amendment, allowing babies to be k*lled up to the point of birth.

God help us all...

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

The Vice President is absolutely correct about what happened last night. Let me be clear. Running back to the arms of neo-cons will not save us. Trump decided to act like a neo-con and the results were disastrous. We need real America First candidates, who will focus on what matters. Vance correctly diagnoses the problem. We ought to focus on the things he lists:

[JD Vance @JDVance]

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.

[Shawn @TheWontonShawn]

What a waste of twelve years.

[JCC @MistralWindBoy]

BURN IT ALL DOWN and start over! We're gonna have to do "bad" things y'all. 🤬

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The MAGA political brand is dead but America First as a movement and principle lives on and must live on. If the Republican Party will have any future, and if the country itself will have any future, it will be through America First.

[Jarrod Rodriguez @JarrodRodrigue1]

@DanielDiMartino Well this is what happens when you put the interests of Israel over America.

The GOP has utterly failed to address the economic concerns of Americans. They’ve practically ushered in socialism and it’s this administration’s fault.

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

But it may be too late

[Anthony Sabatini @AnthonySabatini]

As I’ve said before

The Republican Party must be totally rebuilt from the ground up

From here on out, it must be actual America First

True nationalism

Purge the swamp from the party

[SOVEREIGN BRAH 🇺🇸🏛️⚡️ @sovereignbrah]

Starting an unnecessary war that triggered a global energy crisis was a guaranteed way to lose the midterms.

Duh. Retards.

[Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz]

It seems we lost tonight.

But at least Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon.

Iran doesn’t have a nuke….but we get a socialist Congress.

That won’t bother the Israel-First crowd.

After all, Israel is a socialist country already.

[Valentina Gomez @ValentinaForUSA]

Talarico won in Texas.

Get ready for trans kids, mosques & more gay shit.

“come & take it” they took it tonight.

Weak Republicans should all be fired

[José Montoya @Jose_Montoya81]

@PONY_Official Yup. And now we don’t even have a better alternative. We as a people are royally screwed.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The conservatives who said:

1) The war in Iran is catastrophically stupid

2) Affordability is a real problem

3) America First

Were exactly right on every point.