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[Costa @Costacoin11]

The campaign promise was to deport the criminals. Deporting the people that were trying to get status and checking in the responsible (and legal) way were punished for doing so. I’ve been hyper critical of the president, but this is a good self reflection and absolutely one of the reasons the republicans lost so badly.

[Scott @RetiredAFRN]

For the 3 million people who voted NO on Florida #3, I expect you all to immediately pull your homestead exemption and pay your full property taxes. You all need to do your part.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@YanksFan239 @gust109 @_pbcdaniel That’s your job, stop asking for other people to figure out your shit for you and maybe you won’t be whining on X

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@g4ryo4k_ @EMT_Ashlie Guess you’ve never taken an economics class. Supply and demand is what drives pricing

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@barbarino_dev @EMT_Ashlie So you’re saying the government is corrupt. Cool we’re on the same page.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@Sei7e @EMT_Ashlie Or you understand supply and demand. If someone is offering a unit cheaper and your unit isn’t renting than you might have to lower the price. That’s how free markets work. What a concept. In other words the market may not give landlords a choice.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@YanksFan239 @gust109 @_pbcdaniel The millage rate is calculated based on value, amendment 3 actually makes it so commercial properties are capped to 5% increase vs 10% increase. Which actually lowers operating costs for rental unit owners creating an opportunity for lower rents as well.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@Spaceysoka Where did all the extra money go from new construction and increased property values? Fucking moron. The money had to go somewhere.

[James Fishback @jamesfishback]

RIP MAGA.

2016-2026. 10 years young.

Now it's either America First or the Republicans will never hold power again.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@HilzFuld 😂

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@EMT_Ashlie Why haven’t all the billions of tax dollars generated over even the past 5 years gone to fix the infrastructure? You think miraculously the government was goin to start spending the money correctly now???

[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.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@DanBilzerian Would it surprise you to know that dems already had a chance to release the Epstein files? The problem is Trump is cut from the same cloth he “warned” us about

[Costa @Costacoin11]

So your logic is let’s hurt the millions of home owners in the state of Florida because the .1% of the 1% have multiple homes? The cap on non homestead properties helps renters too. One of the reasons why rents kept increasing at such an unsustainable pace was because property taxes have been sky rocketing for commercial properties for the past 5 years.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

You do realize that the 5% cap on commercial non homesteaded properties significantly helps renters right? If more taxes for the state is what you want you should be BEGGING for data centers then 🤣 you guys are a joke. Just make baseless claims without any knowledge of what’s actually going on.

[Costa @Costacoin11]

@_Paint__ So with the record property tax increases from the past 5 years they didn’t do it…why would they do it now? Maybe rural Florida doesn’t want to pay the government to live in their homes.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, Megyn Kelly and everyone else who opposed the idiotic, disastrous war of choice in Iran were right.

The people who demonized them for their principled opposition deserve to be ruled by Democrats. But the rest of us don’t.

[Jon Aguiar @JonAguiar]

Trump got regime change in Texas before Iran

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.