BREAKING: The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia, $NVDA, chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military, per NYT
Republicans only focused on issues that polled well, ie; tax cuts, anti-communism, anti-trans.
Just because 90% of ppl agree and a consultant said so, this doesn’t mean it’s relevant.
When Dems talked about the economy, GOP responded with trans kids and another communism post.
Another notable moment: DeSantis seemed to singal that culture-war issues are no longer salient with voters.
“Four years ago we were in the peak woke era. It alienated a lot of people. …Now the issues are different, and Republicans—it seemed like with some of the ads I was seeing, with how much money they were spending—they were really fighting yesterday’s battle.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Democrats aren't popular.
This was not a positive view of the Democrats. This was a rejection of Republicans in Washington.
Trump going from writing his own tweets to a hundred million Americans to having an assistant type it on Truth Social for 5 people to see is an under discussed reason for why republicans lost the PR battle.