@Adam125890 This is completely incorrect . Paxton underperformed. But the level wasn’t enough to matter. He lost by less than trump had previously won Texas. It was a wave year that brought everyone down.
Make note of every Republican politician saying this right now. I will be making a list.
This is when it’s hardest to hold the line. This will be a good litmus test for who is serious about this and who is paying lip service
As for Mike Rulli:
Stephen Miller was born for the Chief of Staff role.
This is genuinely one of the greatest interviews I've ever watched in my life.
CNN’s Jake Tapper came in with a “gotcha” question on illegal immigration, and Miller didn’t flinch and even offered to stay 30 MINUTES to walk Tapper through it.
Tapper: How are you going to avoid deporting illegal immigrants working in agriculture?
Miller: “Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture. The top destinations for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, like Los Angeles...”
Tapper: “You’re kinda changing this subject.”
Miller: “Give me 30 minutes, I’ll go as deep as you want!”
This poll should be a death sentence for the entire GOP consultant class.
For decades, these idiots have insisted that the secret to winning elections is to ignore the people who actually vote Republican and desperately chase the approval of those who despise them.
White Americans are the only major racial demographic that consistently votes majority Republican, yet you’d never know it from how readily the GOP dismisses their concerns about immigration, jobs, crime, national defense, and wages.
And the millions of non-White Americans, of every background, who also voted for those same promises are still waiting for results too.
Republicans don’t have a MESSAGING problem. They have a GOVERNANCE problem.
And your brilliant solution is to MODERATE for a “broader coalition”?
You haven’t even delivered for the coalition that elected you!
Instead of asking how to win over people who hate you, maybe start by asking why the people who trusted you have so little to show for it.
We don’t want another rally, another fundraising text message, or another lecture about how terrible Democrats are. We want you to actually deliver on the promises we elected you to fulfill.
You don’t energize your base by demanding it clap louder while you turn your back on everything it voted for.
We didn’t elect you so we could spend the next four years fighting to save YOUR jobs. We elected you to fight for OURS.
@CarmineSabia Cornyn would not have won. Brain dead analysis. This wasn’t candidate quality issues affecting the outcome this was just a smack down. As for South Carolina, I think anyone not named Graham would have won as an R. Look at Gov race and look at upstate split
If Senator Thune cares at all about what remains of the Senate Republicans, he should sit this one out.
For two years, House Republicans begged him to bring conservative legislation to the floor, including the SAVE Act. He refused. He chose to protect the institution rather than fight to save the country.
He made failed Mitch McConnell look like a genius. And his refusal to lead has consequences. Thune owns this week’s Senate Republican losses.
Had he put the SAVE Act on the floor and fought for it, Republicans would still hold the majority.
Spare us the victory lap. The Senate didn’t lose its majority by accident. John Thune squandered it.
Some of y’all would have folded when the Caliphate controlled the vast majority of Spain.
Or when Comanche raiders hit your settlement, slaughtered who they could find, and carried off the women and children.
Or when your Greek mercenary band found itself stranded deep in Persian territory, facing a newly hostile satrap, and most of your leaders had been treacherously executed.
Or when your Israelite nation faced an army of Philistines and a Nephilim.
Have you not read the Scriptures or the annals of Western history?
Don’t give up the ship.