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.
and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.
That’s not a wipeout then.
I remember when they were alarmed over a 2024 election wipeout.
Who will protect the pedophiles if they lose? I mean, the democrats won’t actually do anything. But the GOP won’t have the power to protect them.
Not alarmed enough to actually enact policies that are popular with the majority of the people.
That’s one thing you DON’T have to worry about them learning here.
IF the Democrats get a huge win, like in the 70%or something, I’m sure they’ll squander it like there is no tomorrow. They VOULD impeach trump a dozen times over but they’ll start just threatening with letters or some shit.
The US Democrats are the worst political group world wide, only surpassed by US Republicans who are just plain evil clowns
The choices have devolved to “fascists” or fucking do-nothing idiots at this point.
Team Fascists and Team “actually the Fascists are right, we need more money for ICE, more wall, and the most lethal military ever”
After a certain point, gerrymanders are counterpruductive. It’ll be nice if the other electoral fuckery such as voter-roll purges and voter suppression aren’t enough to stop it. But I’m not optimistic.
I would like BOTH parties to go extinct. The Democratic leadership has no spine and waffles at best, the Republicans are evil by default.
Replacing the Dems’ leadership might actually help. The Republican Party, though, is rotten to the core.
lol “one party could do better while the other will murder every man woman and child in sight, they’re both the same!!”
Not at all what they said. What they said was one party is right wing light, the other is fascist, and due to that we need entirely new parties.
Try gaslighting somewhere else.
That’s literally not what they said but okay.
Gaslighting some more? Damn you’re stupider than MAGA.
That’s literally what they said, pedo protector.
Your tag is now: Pedo Protecting Gaslighter
Projection much?
Are you now announcing your tactics, Pokemon style?
They’re both owned by Israel. Nothing is going to change until we end the Israeli occupation of our government
No worries there are only establishment Democrats and the “progressives” are actively working against the “vote them out” mantra adopted after the last elections.
Guillotine for president 2026!
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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% when the voter moved to California.
I can only imagine the impassioned whining if the situation were reversed and biased for liberals.
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.
it’s stacked in favor of parties that play by the actual rules
Hahahaha WHAT?
The rules are get 270 electoral votes, not get the most votes. This generally requires winning the majority of states.
Except you can “win” the election with something absurd like 27 votes, against 100 million.
Any system where that’s an actual possibility is fucking stupid.
Sure in theory if only a single person voted in the 12 largest states you could win that way, but that’s not really possible.
You can also “normally” win just the smallest states, and win with states representing only ~25% of the population. If you want something more realistically fucking stupid and completely disqualifying for an electoral system
That’s equally hypothetical, winning the ~36 smallest states by a single vote and getting no other votes.
Wrong.
Why? because it feels better to say the system is rigged than admit Democrats sold out the working class across the country and are reaping the benefits?
What do you mean why? The electoral college has been utterly broken since they froze the number of house seats in 1929. It gets worse every year as population increases. This causes low population states to have way more representation in the House, influence over the presidency, and through that and the Senate, the SCOTUS, than they’re designed to. And since racism seems to play well to the rural folk who love to vote against their own interests, this has given Republicans a significant advantage.
This is on top of the blatant gerrymandering that Republicans do in red states (look at Ohio which voted under maps that were deemed illegal). And the blatant voter suppression actions taken every cycle.
Are corporate Democrats also failing to be appealing? Yes, but that doesn’t mean the board isn’t also tilted against them. The fact that Clinton had like 8 million more votes in 2016 but still “lost” is proof. SCOTUS stealing the election from Gore is also proof.
The low limit on the house is a problem for representation in general, but it doesn’t change the presidential election much. Trump would have still won the election if there were 800 representatives in the house, though it would have been closer.
The popular vote is irrelevant for the presidency, so your proving my point by bringing it up. It’s not relevant to the rules of the election.
False. The distribution of seats requires a lot of skewing to fit the vastly different sizes of populations.
I’m not proving your point at all. The fact that we don’t listen to the cast majority of people to represent the country as a whole is dumb. The fact that your presence in a state that votes differently from you actually works AGAINST you, is even dumber.
The apportionment formula is straightforward, you can find calculators to see what would happen as more representatives gets added. It’s not magic.
They’re going to lose their majority in the house months before the midterms even happen
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.
Democratic donors be like: “we can run anyone and they can’t say no!”
That’s why we NEED progressives in the primaries. The real battles will be in that race. If establishment Democrats keep control, Republicans will sweep again from 2028 or 2032; just like what happened after Trump’s first term.
I hate that we have fight the Democrats to keep the Democrats alive, but we do.
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.
They will blame it on Democrats because that’s what their media bubble tells them to do.
I have been hammering my MAGA parents with articles that I know they could never defend in a face to face discussion so that they cannot say they didn’t know, and they know exactly why all of this happened.
Still not exactly optimistic that it’ll work.
They believe the other option would have resulted in even worse outcome. As long as they can imagine it being worse, they can believe voting for their (misguided, but not as much as the other) team is the right thing to do.
The silver lining is that if their team is less inspirational, some voters will become discouraged and stay home instead of voting.
They are so addicted to their right-wing echo chamber media that they will never know that Orange Jesus is fully responsible for any of the direct pain they will experience. All they will hear is that somehow it’s all Joe Biden and Barack HUSSEINs fault that they can’t afford to stuff their faces.
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.
“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.
They absolutely will still vote red, but hopefully they’ve pissed off enough independents and nonvoters to persuade them to go vote.
Well a caravan of immigrants will magically appear a few weeks before the election again and magically disappear the day after.
Politics loves our short term memory. They just need the right timing of some media story or crisis and people forget everything before.
Expect +80% of them to still vote red no matter what.
A ‘wipeout’, they would still control two of three, but it’s going to be disastrous!
We need more than ‘shave down their lead’
