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God, Family, Friends, Sports. Life is good! Jeremiah 29:11

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[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.

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[Kat™ The Hammer ⚒️ @KatTheHammer1]

I can't breath! 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

The Oscar goes to …

[Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️ @StooliesClub]

I can’t stop watching/posting these videos! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Pete Santilli 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🎙️ @petersantilli]

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen!! This is what hope, pride, and American ingenuity looks like.
Happy 4th of July weekend, patriots!

[David Migoya @DavidMigoya]

I LOVE this video!!
Finally, no politics, no agendas, nothing but fun and acceptance. Happy 250!

[StonkTrump @StonkTrump]

250 years of dunking on the tea drinkers

Happy birthday America 🇺🇸

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Nobody throws a 4th of July party like President Trump! 🇺🇸

Proud to be an American! https://t.co/IVXYUqz937

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

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[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

This is a ridiculously over-the-top display of brash arrogant patriotism.

God, I love it! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/uqf4ofuDm7

[ᴹᵘᵛᵃ ᥫ᭡ @TvkeOfff]

Anytime I'm close to panicking, I always say to myself, "when has it never not worked out in the end?" and I calm right down. God has literally never failed me, EVER

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

God is not pacing heaven, wondering what to do next.

He is ruling.

He is never surprised, never anxious, never scrambling.

And in your darkest hour, the same sovereign hand that set the stars in place is lovingly holding your life steady.

You can trust Him.

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[Empress Ade @cessadelove1]

I saw a quote that said:
“You worry too much for someone whom God has never failed.”
And honestly, I needed to be called out like that.

[Merry @M3RRY74]

@IanRunkle @YouTube Looking forward to watching!

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[Ben Chase @BenGChase]

Dude said, “I win, Google me” and then won it all.

All time.

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[The White House @WhiteHouse]

If you don’t know, now you know 🦅

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

A mother filmed her two kids worshiping Jesus during their church Christmas service. It's genuinely encouraging to see children being raised with a love for Christ. This is what it looks like when faith is passed down the right way.

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

"The hardest thing I have ever done in my life, is sit in a hospital room and watch my son die, and watch my wife watch her son die."

"There was nothing I could do."

"I would have done anything."

"As hard as it was and still is, I have never experienced anything that made me more aware of the love of God."

"God watched his son die for me and for you and he could have stopped it."

"He loved us so much that he didn't."

Really puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

Jesus never wrote a book, never held political office, never led an army.
And yet more lives have been changed by Him than by anyone who ever lived.
Kings rise and fall, empires come and go, but the name of Jesus Christ endures forever.

[Merry @M3RRY74]

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[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"The God who once dwelled among His people in this city still calls us, in the words of Scripture, to turn from evil and do good, to seek peace and pursue it." - President Donald J. Trump