Republicans are increasingly anxious about a midterms wipeout

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At the rate things are going for all of us, this may end up with all of us camping in the streets by the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans should be anxious. In the last election, there were 69 Republican House members that won their seats with less than a 10 percent margin. Every single one of those seats will be an easy pickup for Democrats in 26. There were also 11 Republican Senators that won with less than a 10 percent margin. Democrats have a bad senate map in 26 but retaking the senate is very possible now.

Republican politicians are going to have to choose soon - fealty to Trump and Musk or their jobs.

It doesn't matter if they choose fealty or not. The House was always going to be lost in the midterms with a lame duck President. But now, as you described the losses will be catastrophic. The GOP has near-zero percent chance of retaining the House.

Agree. The question is just how catastrophic the losses are.

That having been said, I’m not sure a lot of the core groups that switched to Trump are going to be impacted by the devastation of the tariffs. If there is a Great Depression, yes. But take the young Gen Z men who flocked to Trump. They don’t have stock or even any hope of stock so the stock market doesn’t bother them. They don’t have any belief they’ll ever have a house, so interest rates don’t bother them. In fact they might be happy that government employees, UMC folks, etc. are suffering as they perceive those groups as causing their suffering.

These tariffs were targeted to and disproportionately hit Biden voters. I don’t know how that impacts the midterms.

Don’t the young gen z men have jobs? They will lose their jobs and have to pay more for groceries and rent too. Or I guess move back home. Doesn’t seem uplifting.

Many don’t have jobs or are underemployed. Many already have to live with their parents. That’s actually part of what drew them to Trump.

DCUM is always very out of touch but come on, look at what is bringing Gen Z to Trump. The Gen Z men he won aren’t the coddled children of the wealthy. They are undereducated young men who have been left behind.

This is a very fickle group and they will turn on a dime, but I do not think they are going to see their lives change much because of the tariffs. Their lives were already not great under Biden.

Polls show they already left Trump months ago, in February. They are fickle, yes, but not dumb. They believed Trump figuratively instead of believing Trump literally. (Tbf, so did I, but I still voted against him instead of for him.)

I think Rogan and the rest of the podcast bro crew are starting to get wishy washy on Trump.

yep, Rogan said rounding up innocent people to be sent to the El Salvadorian prisons was "horrific".

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5224117-trump-deportation-gang-members/

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Anonymous wrote:I just hope the Democrats:

1) Do not take the midterms for granted
2) If the win the midterms, do not assume that 2028 will be easy with just any Democrat.

We need to not only focus on why GOP is bad but also offer a better alternative.

They couldn't do this in 2024, and can't do it now. What makes you think they can do it in 2026?

If the tariff dominoes start falling into place, the markets are going to spike.

Fellow maga here.

Bro, no. If those numbers were real, then I would agree with you. But the numbers the WH released have no relationship to fact or reality. Those numbers are NOT the tariffs that other nations are charging us, regardless of what thaf chart says. I urge you to do a careful fact check, and you'll see. If this were real, then okay. But they arent real.

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans should be anxious. In the last election, there were 69 Republican House members that won their seats with less than a 10 percent margin. Every single one of those seats will be an easy pickup for Democrats in 26. There were also 11 Republican Senators that won with less than a 10 percent margin. Democrats have a bad senate map in 26 but retaking the senate is very possible now.

Republican politicians are going to have to choose soon - fealty to Trump and Musk or their jobs.

It doesn't matter if they choose fealty or not. The House was always going to be lost in the midterms with a lame duck President. But now, as you described the losses will be catastrophic. The GOP has near-zero percent chance of retaining the House.

Agree. The question is just how catastrophic the losses are.

That having been said, I’m not sure a lot of the core groups that switched to Trump are going to be impacted by the devastation of the tariffs. If there is a Great Depression, yes. But take the young Gen Z men who flocked to Trump. They don’t have stock or even any hope of stock so the stock market doesn’t bother them. They don’t have any belief they’ll ever have a house, so interest rates don’t bother them. In fact they might be happy that government employees, UMC folks, etc. are suffering as they perceive those groups as causing their suffering.

These tariffs were targeted to and disproportionately hit Biden voters. I don’t know how that impacts the midterms.

Trump voters will be harder hit unless they do another 9 figure bailout of the Ag sector like in 2018.

Which they will, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans should be anxious. In the last election, there were 69 Republican House members that won their seats with less than a 10 percent margin. Every single one of those seats will be an easy pickup for Democrats in 26. There were also 11 Republican Senators that won with less than a 10 percent margin. Democrats have a bad senate map in 26 but retaking the senate is very possible now.

Republican politicians are going to have to choose soon - fealty to Trump and Musk or their jobs.

It doesn't matter if they choose fealty or not. The House was always going to be lost in the midterms with a lame duck President. But now, as you described the losses will be catastrophic. The GOP has near-zero percent chance of retaining the House.

Agree. The question is just how catastrophic the losses are.

That having been said, I’m not sure a lot of the core groups that switched to Trump are going to be impacted by the devastation of the tariffs. If there is a Great Depression, yes. But take the young Gen Z men who flocked to Trump. They don’t have stock or even any hope of stock so the stock market doesn’t bother them. They don’t have any belief they’ll ever have a house, so interest rates don’t bother them. In fact they might be happy that government employees, UMC folks, etc. are suffering as they perceive those groups as causing their suffering.

These tariffs were targeted to and disproportionately hit Biden voters. I don’t know how that impacts the midterms.

Don’t the young gen z men have jobs? They will lose their jobs and have to pay more for groceries and rent too. Or I guess move back home. Doesn’t seem uplifting.

Maybe they’ll care when the prices of their precious game systems are affected. https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/553133/pre-orders-delayed-trump-tariff

Switch 2 at $449 BEFORE the tariffs … and Nintendo systems are the cheapest lately. New PS and Xbox consoles could go up close to $1000 I’m guessing. Well that’s what they all voted for and wanted, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I just hope the Democrats:

1) Do not take the midterms for granted
2) If the win the midterms, do not assume that 2028 will be easy with just any Democrat.

We need to not only focus on why GOP is bad but also offer a better alternative.

They couldn't do this in 2024, and can't do it now. What makes you think they can do it in 2026?

If the tariff dominoes start falling into place, the markets are going to spike.

Fellow maga here.

Bro, no. If those numbers were real, then I would agree with you. But the numbers the WH released have no relationship to fact or reality. Those numbers are NOT the tariffs that other nations are charging us, regardless of what thaf chart says. I urge you to do a careful fact check, and you'll see. If this were real, then okay. But they arent real.

I would not trust ANY data coming out of the WH, be it about tariffs, jobs, or the weather report.

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That hair! He's become a literal blockhead.

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Wow he is so gray!

[Anonymous]

They have nothing to worry about.
There will be no elections by 2028

Trump is king til he's dead.

Anyone who does not understand where we are with election denying is not paying attention.
Not to mention dems suck at this.

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out even red states like to keep their jobs, benefit programs, and 401k balances.

They really need to start voting like it. All the economists/experts said that trump's policies were worse for the economy, and they voted for him anyways. Republican party hasn't made it a secret they want to go after benefit programs. And they voted for them anyways.

But they feel like their ignorance and gut feel is more worthy of listening to than expertise, and they just want to 'own the libs'. And they're getting that.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow he is so gray!

Alrighty year olds are either gray or bald. It’s much better looking than the corn on the cob he used to wear

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Anonymous wrote:They have nothing to worry about.
There will be no elections by 2028

Trump is king til he's dead.

Anyone who does not understand where we are with election denying is not paying attention.
Not to mention dems suck at this.

We don’t tolerate "Kings" in this country. Stop whining, respect those that died for your freedoms and fight like a real Patriot if tyranny attempts to exist.

[Anonymous]

All eighty year olds, not alrighty. I need to proofread before hitting submit^

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans should be anxious. In the last election, there were 69 Republican House members that won their seats with less than a 10 percent margin. Every single one of those seats will be an easy pickup for Democrats in 26. There were also 11 Republican Senators that won with less than a 10 percent margin. Democrats have a bad senate map in 26 but retaking the senate is very possible now.

Republican politicians are going to have to choose soon - fealty to Trump and Musk or their jobs.

It doesn't matter if they choose fealty or not. The House was always going to be lost in the midterms with a lame duck President. But now, as you described the losses will be catastrophic. The GOP has near-zero percent chance of retaining the House.

Agree. The question is just how catastrophic the losses are.

That having been said, I’m not sure a lot of the core groups that switched to Trump are going to be impacted by the devastation of the tariffs. If there is a Great Depression, yes. But take the young Gen Z men who flocked to Trump. They don’t have stock or even any hope of stock so the stock market doesn’t bother them. They don’t have any belief they’ll ever have a house, so interest rates don’t bother them. In fact they might be happy that government employees, UMC folks, etc. are suffering as they perceive those groups as causing their suffering.

These tariffs were targeted to and disproportionately hit Biden voters. I don’t know how that impacts the midterms.

Don’t the young gen z men have jobs? They will lose their jobs and have to pay more for groceries and rent too. Or I guess move back home. Doesn’t seem uplifting.

Many don’t have jobs or are underemployed. Many already have to live with their parents. That’s actually part of what drew them to Trump.

DCUM is always very out of touch but come on, look at what is bringing Gen Z to Trump. The Gen Z men he won aren’t the coddled children of the wealthy. They are undereducated young men who have been left behind.

This is a very fickle group and they will turn on a dime, but I do not think they are going to see their lives change much because of the tariffs. Their lives were already not great under Biden.

Polls show they already left Trump months ago, in February. They are fickle, yes, but not dumb. They believed Trump figuratively instead of believing Trump literally. (Tbf, so did I, but I still voted against him instead of for him.)

I think Rogan and the rest of the podcast bro crew are starting to get wishy washy on Trump.

yep, Rogan said rounding up innocent people to be sent to the El Salvadorian prisons was "horrific".

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5224117-trump-deportation-gang-members/

And he's still defending it as an innocent mistake that God Emperor Trump probably didn't even know about.