GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned over signs the 2026 midterm elections could be a wipeout for Republicans that could cost them control of the House and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.
There’s growing anxiety in the Senate and House GOP conferences that Trump’s sinking approval rating will create a headwind in swing states and districts.
But GOP lawmakers say they still have time to improve their party’s image before next November.
Democrats better not mess this up and we do mean it this time. Prison for every single traitor, pedofile and seditious oligarch. Musk and Thiel better be first in line. We want their assets frozen and used to repair the damage to our democracy. The Supreme Court better get cleaned up with impeachments. This is their last chance before guillotine second amendment time. Also anyone who takes money from Israel should now be declared an enemy combatant
Democrats better not mess this up and we do mean it this time.
Is that a joke? Of course they’ll fuck it up.
Well then it’s guillotine time I guess.
There is no way you can lay off 300,000+ federal workers, shut the entire federal government down for 40 days, dramatically increase prices by imposing tariffs, shut down food and other exports by pissing off the buying countries, and allow huge increases in heathcare insurance premiums without causing a recession or worse. Trump and his ilk know it too which is why any economic data they do release will be altered by Trump loyalists, facts be damned.
I want to believe, but he won in 2024 after increasing the US debt 25%, having excess death of Covid of 1MM and basin his whole agenda on dunking on the poor, where most of us are still. Morons voted him in.
Even Maga notice it when food prices go way up, when they lose health insurance, and when they lose their jobs. We’ll eventually reach a tipping point where the sadistic pleasure Maga morons gets from hurting others isn’t worth the pain they’re experiencing themselves. I hope its soon.
All I have to say to them is:
G-G-G-G-GET FUCKED-ucked-ucked-ucked-ucked-ucked
G-GE-GET-GET F-GET FU-GET FUC-GET FUCK-GET FUCKE-GET FUCKED-ET FUCKED-T FUCKED-UCKED-CKED-KED-ED-D
The US system is so horrendously and completely biased towards the GOP, I don’t think polls mean much. Most of the country can not want a Republican and they’ll still be “fairly” elected.
I know we’re talking about midterms, but this is especially true of the Electoral College, where states with lower populations end up with higher representation per capita. Empty land doesn’t vote, but it does change elections in favor of the GOP.
A Republican I spoke to was fully convinced that living in a state with more land per capita should make each person’s vote worth more, while those living in a densely populated state should expect their votes to be worth less. He thought it was perfectly reasonable for someone moving from California to Wyoming to have the value of their vote increase by almost 4x. He balked when asked if the value of a Wyoming vote should decrease by 75% if the voter moved to California.
I can only imagine the impassioned whining if the situation were reversed.
This is a boring narrative. The system isn’t stacked in favor of the GOP, it’s stacked in favor of parties that play by the actual rules. If a party can’t make a compelling message to multiple different states, it’s on them.
Wrong.
Can’t wait to see how the Democrats either fuck this up entirely or just fail to do anything productive with the gains.
I’m not hoping for it … America has a habit of being dumb as a brick and electing people that eat crayons.
I have zero confidence the republican voter base won’t just push the big red button right into full blown authoritarian fascism.
Maybe they won’t. Im just not confident. They’re very easy to manipulate a few weeks out before election time.
Expect +80% of them to still vote red no matter what.
They absolutely will still vote red, but hopefully they’ve pissed off enough independents and nonvoters to persuade them to go vote.
“Well I don’t like fascism but ThE LiBrUlZ”
Most will still vote red. Maybe a large chunk just won’t vote and that’s the best we can expect.
I saw a post where a disappointed MAGA called out Trump and then said he wouldn’t vote in the next election.
That’s the way he saw it; vote for the GOP or don’t vote at all.
I mean if you’re a pro-gun, pro-life, capitalist evangelical who wants less immigration - not voting is the best we can hope for.
Actually, the best we can hope for is that they get kidnapped and disappeared by the very nazis they voted for.
Less trash to deal with.
Fair point.
The “big red button” is not in the voting booth
For all their histrionics about personal freedoms (only for themselves of course), a big chunk of Republicans are just looking for daddy to take care of them. Life is easier when you don’t to make decisions and you have zero responsibility for your own mistakes. That felony conviction is no problem because daddy will forgive (and pardon) you.
Add to that the fact that nothing gets Republicans more aroused than taking freedoms away from people they don’t like and making them suffer, and authoritarianism seems ideal. Trump and his ilk are perfect reflections of their sadistic MAGA base.
A significant majority of the GQP base and has already chosen full blown authoritarian fascism.
Politics loves our short term memory. They just need the right timing of some media story or crisis and people forget everything before.
The last time Republicans played with tariffs, it took them about a decade to regain power and about three decades to regain the initiative in the debate. Unless they break democracy and invalidate the results somehow, I think that’s where we’re headed.
A ‘wipeout’, they would still control two of three, but it’s going to be disastrous!
We need more than ‘shave down their lead’
Not if Schumer and Jeffries have anything to say about it…
