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[Daily Trite🇺🇸 @realDailyTrite]

It's almost as if the economy was doing just fine and everyone knew it but had to pretend otherwise for the midterms 🤔

[Martin @theGingerHulk]

@TaylorLorenz You voted for this, Taylor

[russ @_walruss]

An obese idiot proudly saving their local abandoned parking lot from being turned into a local money-printing machine is a perfect metaphor for what the country did last Tuesday.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

One of the earliest lessons any reasonably smart young boy learns early on is that you will face the most oppressive consequences imaginable for temporarily embarrassing a middle aged woman.

[Martin @theGingerHulk]

@Holden114 Let me explain this to you slowly, Holden. It’s because with a modicum of critical thinking, you learn this premise is absurd and therefore does not even deserve an answer.

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

Poor people aren't taxed at all, on net.

They're huge tax recipients, lifestyles 50-100% subsidized by dollars stolen from working, middle, and upper class citizens.

[Martin @theGingerHulk]

@scott_colom Do we have your word that you won’t nuke the filibuster? You won’t vote in favor of DC/PR statehood? You won’t pack the Supreme Court?

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Hi. Want to see a murder on live TV?

I give you New White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vs. Jake Tapper on CNN.

Tapper said we need illegals here to pick our crops.

Then, Fatality.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

I will never forget the day Stephen Miller went on CNN and carefully walked the host through the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 who had no clue what she was talking about at all

One of the most amazing things I've ever seen on TV

[Midwest Moderate @ModerateIndy]

Holy fuck I’m reregistering as a Republican

You people are insane.

[Tony Kinnett @TheTonus]

Hahahahahahahahaha

[Wajathot Ali @antifamanchin]

Oh my god the Mississippi senator won’t demand full communism. Do you hear yourself. Like genuinely. Do you say these things and make any effort whatsoever to think them through

[Congressional Equality Caucus @EqualityCaucus]

The American people have made their voices heard.

The 120th Congress will officially be the GAYEST Congress in history! (that we know of)

Let's get to work 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

Things that the stock market prices more favorably than the Democrats winning an election:
1. The outbreak of Wuhan Syndrome
2. Trump launching a decapitation strike on Iran and causing a global energy shock
3. Trump declaring a trade war on “planet Earth itself.”

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

Evergreen

[America First Insight @AF_Insight]

Mind you its a data center that

- Is covering 100% of its own power consumption
- Uses zero water for cooling, just bathroom and kitchen
- Offers a 120% water stewardship pledge (Net gain of water in the county)
- Provided housing to construction workers to prevent a local temporary rent hike
- Investing in the local school system
- Was going to pay for the entire County's budget for 7 years

And it still wasn't enough. There just is zero way to overcome the negative PR/NIMBY

[Martin @theGingerHulk]

@alexbronzini No.

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.

Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.

You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.

You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.

Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.

Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.

On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.

You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.

Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.

At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.

You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.

After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.

Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.

Your son grows upset. You change the channel.

Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.

Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.

Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.

You sit alone in your living room.

You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.

Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.

And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.

Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.

For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.

The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:

You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.

And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.

What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?

[Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 @BonifaceOption]

If you understand why Brandon Gill won so handily despite a bloodbath for the rest of the GOP, you understand exactly what needs to be done and said the next two years.

[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.