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The Absurdity of the Blame Trump Campaign

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2022
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AMAC Exclusive – By Seamus Brennan

In an Election Day interview, Donald Trump quipped something to the effect that if his endorsed candidates won on Tuesday, he should get all the credit, and that if they lost, he should get none of the blame. As Trump surely knew when he made the joke, what would actually happen on election night was always destined to be the exact opposite. From the moment the polls closed, the media pundits and establishment Republicans eager to dispatch the former president from the stage were working frantically to ensure that where Trump’s endorsed candidates lost, he would get all of the blame—and where they won, he would get none of the credit.

But this predictable attempt to make Donald Trump the scapegoat for closer-than-expected midterm election results is highly misleading, and an oversimplification in the extreme.

The results of Tuesday night’s elections do not tell an easy story for those looking to pin the blame on Trump.

Many Trump candidates—including J. D. Vance, Ted Budd, almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters, and possibly (after the runoff) Herschel Walker—will have won their races in highly competitive swing states despite most being outspent by tens of millions of dollars.

Where Republican candidates faltered, it was not just those who were chosen by the former president: numerous strong House candidates handpicked by Kevin McCarthy lost races the consultant class had expected to win, including Yesli Vega running against vulnerable Democrat Representative Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Rhode Island Republican Alan Fung, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia on the Texas border, and many others.

If Washington, D.C. consultants and establishment leaders are truly looking for someone to blame for the lack of a red tsunami on Tuesday, there are far more suitable candidates than Trump. First among them would be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose allies appear to be behind much of the Blame Trump campaign.

Whatever virtues McConnell may have as a legislative tactician and fundraiser—and they are evidently considerable—the fact is that McConnell failed to use his power over the past two years to shape the political terrain in ways that would support an overwhelming Republican victory. Even worse, he actively undermined Republican candidates at critical junctures.

At no point in the past two years have Americans seen McConnell and other top Republican leaders in Washington pick real and effective fights with the Biden administration. At no point have they managed to focus the nation on controversies that would be politically advantageous to their party. In Trump’s absence, the GOP establishment has reverted to McConnell’s preferred style of opposition, one of passivity and accommodation.

Time and time again, the Senate Minority Leader has proved fundamentally unserious about opposing the overreaches of the radical left. If establishment Republicans believed that the border crisis was the existential national security disaster they claimed in their speeches, nothing about McConnell’s actions in the Senate would suggest they actually believed it. There were no threats of a government shutdown if the border was not restored. There were no real conflicts over spending bills. There was no significant effort to block key nominees or exact a price for the Biden administration’s extremism. Worst of all, there was virtually no effort whatsoever to use McConnell’s considerable power in a 50-50 Senate to set up strategic fights—to force Joe Biden to finish the wall, or to stop the Department of Homeland Security from trying to censor free speech.

Instead, in a Senate that routinely needed Republican votes to pass Democrat priorities, McConnell ensured that Democrats routinely got them with as little fanfare as possible.

Since January 2021, McConnell’s Senate minority has greenlighted some of the left’s most unpopular legislative and foreign policy initiatives—from the $550 billion “infrastructure” package to emptying out America’s arsenals and sending them to Ukraine. Even if he intended to pass the tens of billions for Ukraine, an effective Republican opposition leader would have insisted on including provisions to secure America’s own border in the process. The American people would have rallied to the Republicans’ side.

That would be the kind of leadership that could have forced the media to give some coverage—any coverage—to Congressional Republicans doing something useful.

Instead, McConnell’s theory appears to have been that he could win the Senate majority by default. When asked what Republicans would do if given the Senate majority, he famously replied that he would tell us after they had won. When NRSC Chairman Rick Scott attempted to put forward a positive vision for the party to rally around, McConnell slapped him down.

In retrospect, these appear to have been grievous mistakes. Republican leaders in Congress succeeded only in making themselves effectively invisible and allowing Democrats to drive the subject of national conversation to other issues—abortion, “democracy,” January 6th.

To make matters worse, McConnell actively attempted to sabotage pro-Trump Republicans on the general election ballot, presumably because he believed they would not back him as majority leader, and concluded that he’d rather be leader of a Republican minority than part of a Republican majority with someone else at the helm.

At a pivotal moment of the campaign, just as voters were tuning-in late in the summer and many were evaluating the Republican nominees for the first time, McConnell—who over the years has forced upon us any number of losing milquetoast clunker candidates—decided the time was right to publicly attack the Republican Party’s nominees. He baselessly called into question the competence and credibility of candidates like Masters, Vance, Walker, and Oz—thus advancing the left’s narrative that the GOP’s candidates were weird, fringe, and extreme, doing immeasurable damage to their prospects just as countless voters were forming their impressions. In fact, all of these candidates were remarkably impressive and accomplished people in their own ways. The “candidate quality” deficit is a convenient self-serving and blame-deflecting myth. But voters got the message: even Mitch McConnell didn’t think they deserved to win.

For all the venom hurled at Donald Trump by establishment Republicans since Tuesday night, perhaps the most selfish and shocking act of the cycle was when, in the closing weeks of the campaign, McConnell poured $9 million into the state of Alaska, saturating the state’s airwaves not in an effort to ensure that the Republican Party’s candidate won, but that she lost. McConnell spent those precious resources to bolster RINO Lisa Murkowski against Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka. Murkowski, a McConnell ally, has repeatedly insisted on running in the general election after being roundly rejected by Republican primary voters, and was personally responsible for the imposition of the ranked-choice voting system that foiled Republican voters’ desires this year in the state’s House race as well. McConnell spent big on Murkowski’s behalf, despite the fact that she recently voted to confirm Biden’s radical Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, after she had voted against Brett Kavanaugh. If any Republican candidate deserved to lose, it was her.

What might those $9 million McConnell spent against Kelly Tshibaka have done instead for Blake Masters, Herschel Walker, or Mehmet Oz—all of whom were drastically outspent by their Democratic opponents?

Nor is it at all clear that the candidates McConnell ostensibly preferred would have fared better this week. Many people have attacked Trump for endorsing Oz over establishment favorite David McCormick, ignoring that McCormick was a hedge fund CEO who would have been savaged in the general election campaign and played right into Democrat Fetterman’s fake working-class image. In spite of Oz’s imperfections, he may well have been the best of the available options—and those blaming Trump for Oz’s loss are neither honest nor sincere. Likewise, Trump’s endorsement of Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano—a subject of great derision on Tuesday night—was not made until Mastriano had the nomination already all but secured. Trump didn’t really push Mastriano on Pennsylvania primary voters—if anything, the opposite occurred. The same was true in New Hampshire, where Trump did not endorse Don Bolduc until after he had already won the primary. Would McConnell’s establishment stalking horse in New Hampshire have won where Bolduc fell short? There is little reason to think so. Bolduc won the primary because he was the best of the candidates who actually ran.

Meanwhile, there is little doubt that the Senate candidates who did win on Tuesday embraced a Trumpian brand of politics and Trump’s America First platform in ways that look likely to serve the party well in the long term. Whether every bet turns out to pay off or not, Trump should be thanked for making a serious attempt to infuse the party with new life, energy, and appeal in the form of genuine talents such as Vance, Masters, and especially Lake, as well as outsider figures like Walker. Kevin McCarthy, to his credit, also made serious efforts in recruiting for the House and put forth many fine candidates. The fact that not all of these candidates won their races is not proof that the GOP would have been better off reverting to the country-club Republicanism of Mitch McConnell.

In the Senate races, the Democrat money advantage almost certainly made an enormous difference. Governors Ron DeSantis in Florida, Brian Kemp in Georgia, and Mike DeWine in Ohio had huge victories Tuesday night. Not to detract in any way from their impressive wins, but one likely reason is that being an incumbent governor of a major state where your party also controls the legislature confers certain advantages—not the least of which is money. This is especially true in states with more permissive campaign finance laws than those that apply to federal candidates. As a result of these factors, neither DeSantis nor Kemp nor DeWine was assaulted with anything like the $65 million spending differential unleashed upon Blake Masters in Arizona. DeSantis raised an estimated $200 million for his reelection, obviously far more than was needed given his margin of victory. Yet while Trump has been subject to constant criticism for amassing his own $100 million war chest (even after relentlessly raising money for candidates across the country), no one seems to blame DeSantis for not diverting his millions to help elect a Republican Senate.

Ultimately, the naysayers trashing Trump for supposedly hindering Republicans in the midterms are precisely the same voices who have desperately wanted to get rid of him for years—and they predictably seized on any unmet expectations Tuesday to go after him again.

When all is said and done, Republicans won control of the House, still have a strong chance to pull off a Senate victory, and have a handful of genuine new stars who now form the basis of a serious national political bench. This comes despite not only the money deficit, but the overwhelming environmental headwinds that Republicans unfairly face in every election. As lawyer Ron Coleman observed Tuesday night: “At no point in US history has every single cultural institution – press, entertainment, academia, unions, public employees, the massive public employee sector, the professions, law enforcement, federal agencies, major corporations, Wall Street, non-profits, mainline Protestant denominations, the military – I could go on – been so profoundly and explicitly aligned the way they have been behind the Left in the last five years.”

With so many powerful forces arrayed against conservatives, Tuesday night was far from the calamity many doomers on the right insist. But if they truly want to know why election night didn’t go as well as they had perhaps expected, rather than trying to exile the one man who has ever successfully resisted the full gale of these forces, the GOP establishment should look back at all the opportunities they have refused to take, and all the fights they have refused to have over the past two years.

The ultimate irony is that as the midterms begin to be seen with perspective, Trump may once again emerge as a hero to the Republican rank-and-file and conservative independents, while those who seized on the moment to indulge their anti-Trump obsession will be left gnashing their teeth that Trump has once again exposed their lack of professionalism as journalists and political operatives.

In the closing days of the campaign, the former president stood in the pounding rain at one of his many large and boisterous rallies, this one in Miami, energetically making the case for the party in an election when he was not even on the ballot. With time, voters will see that Trump truly has transformed the party, most importantly by teaching Republicans how to fight. That realization will only grow, notwithstanding the ridiculous campaign against him this week.

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Edward
Edward
1 year ago

Many comments here are made to divide and conquer, pit DeSantis against Trump. Both are strong potential candidates and deserve the support of all republicans. It appears the dems, rinos, media, and establishment types are much more afraid of Trump than DeSantis at this point. Don’t be fooled – if DeSantis becomes the nominee those mentioned above will turn on him quickly and just as viciously. Both potential candidates are tough guys/fighters and deserve our support. The last thing republicans need to do is send a gentleman to the street fight that will be the 2024 election. Hopefully these two guys will team up, work together and do what is best for America and Americans. Good luck and best wishes to them both. May the best man win and receive the support of a huge majority of freedom loving Americans.

ezed2109
ezed2109
1 year ago

We need to think about the reality of Trump versus Trump’s agenda. Trump the person has burned too many bridges and rubbed to many the wrong way – most justified, but many others while many were also on target were not necessary or mishandled. Case-in-point VP Mike Pence.
But the Trump agenda is something the Republican Party needs to get fully behind! America First. Make America Great Again. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! Promises Made, Promises Kept. Energy Independence. America Made. China is Not our friend. Support the Blue, First Responders and those who serve. Give our schools back to the children. Moving the US embassy in Israel. Middle East peace accords….
If there are Republicans like Liz Cheney or Mitch McConnell cannot get on-board then get out of the way!.
Hopefully the Republican Party wakes up and gets their act together. Hopefully, they along with Trump do what is right for the nation!

Ron
Ron
1 year ago

The Roevwade issue loomed larger than the Republicans anticipated, they should have been more forthcoming explaining to the people that it is a state issue not federal. Trump had nothing to do with the outcome.

Scythian
Scythian
1 year ago

“almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters… will have won their races”

LOL…

K. F.
K. F.
1 year ago

You are clearly smoking something. First of all, the article was written way before Laxalt and Masters both LOST. The Senate is gone. Trump is completely responsible. Your political analysis looks like that of a 5th grader.

Chris Weaver
Chris Weaver
1 year ago

McConnel…. over the past TWO YEARS??? failed to…….
WHAT????

Beth Amy Clouse
Beth Amy Clouse
1 year ago

Like Romney, McConnell is IMO really a Democrat

Barb
Barb
1 year ago

I was a strong Trump supporter. He did an awesome job as President. I believe he won in 2020. He is not a politician but knows how to get things done. He says what he wants to say – his First Amendment right!

Ekane
Ekane
1 year ago

Trump is nothing more than a fat narcissist loser

Gary Hankins
Gary Hankins
1 year ago

I believe we did well in this election but could have done better if we become more diplomatic in promoting our conservative constitutional positions. We are competing for the minds of millions of young people who are the product of 60 years of increasing indoctrination in our public schools and much of the media. We must take the long view which the Socialist/Democrats have done for more than a century. We must restore public education to a place where facts and truth are the standard, not the exception. To do this most effectively, we must provide alternative schools which are not dominated by teachers’ unions and the Department of Education. Let our unrelenting focus be on the local and state level to pass legislation which ensures that tax dollars go to the schools of parents’ choice. Restoring school choice to parents in an open competitive environment is foundational to restoring our Christian Democratic Republic by making future generations far better educated; far less gullible and much more thoughtful voters.

MariaRose
MariaRose
1 year ago

This article just proves again that these so-called career politicians are more interested in staying in power in the public eye than really concerning themselves with creating legislation that actually helps their constituents. Like the article commented McConnell has been in power long enough to know what tactics to use effectively instead of just playing the game of power. This is how we lose people who need to vote because of these every endings cycles of not achieving the correct outcome.

Robin W Boyd
Robin W Boyd
1 year ago

Mr Trump may be an egotistical blowhard, but President Trump has done and continues to do more for all American citizens than any other political figure regardless of party affiliation. Blame for failure lies more with other Republicans.

Will
Will
1 year ago

Remember that movie enemy of the state, I do belive Trump. Has exposed the democrackheads and how evil they have become so much , they will lie and cheat their way thru anything , people have lost their lives over the crap on what the democrackheads have done to our country. Starting on all the lies with covid , and making people take the shot that has killed and injured so many people.Very sad to see the true colors and the evil side of what this incompetent government and administration is doin. They can call me a election denier all they want , because everyone in America knows that the democrackheads lie and cheat on everything they do and then they turn it around to make it look like the Republicans are the ones who are making bad with everything, they don’t give a crap about the American people all they care about is what they can steal from you.

Steve
Steve
1 year ago

If there are two things that Trump exposed during his time in office they were, (1) The Left gave full and unapologetic exposure to just how hateful and destructive they are willing to be in order to get what they want. This took form in several ways as we saw particularly in 2020. (2) The Establishment wing of the GOP which has done as much destruction, albeit in a different fashion, to the conservatives in this country, under the direction and hatred of McConnell, McCarthy, Graham, Cornyn, and a few others. It’s easy to lay all of this at the feet of the Left and their supporters but the haters are numerous on the right as well.

Laura
Laura
1 year ago

Mitch McConnell (R)ino. Maybe he would prefer to switch over to the Democratic Party. Don’t let the door hit ya, Mitch!” No wonder nobody backs him as Majority Leader. I think the Democrats and the RINOs are terrified of Trump or they wouldn’t be going to such lengths to destroy him. I still say a DeSantis/Trump ticket in 2024.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 year ago

I find it laughable how the media talks about “our candidates” when LOOK AT THEIRS! They embrace and defend a President NOW who 10 years ago even they scoffed at!

Rich
Rich
1 year ago

The socialist/democrats are the masters of the blame game and have the media on their side to their credit. Now unfortunately the left has convinced far too many voters on BOTH sides that the “angry words” of the right are to blame and we should just give in to what the left’s agenda is. The weak minded voters don’t see what the left’s caustic words, freebies, attacks and policies have done to our country. President Trumps defeat has shown us the corruption and deceit in our own government, but until the weak minded can be convinced to change their minds and votes, we will continue to be destroyed from within. It’s all up to “we the people” to change, or cave in. Only God can turn this mess around.

Ruth
Ruth
1 year ago

I am a conservative independent. Mr. Trump was an excellent president. I would gladly vote for him again if given the opportunity. Turncoat Graham is only winning in SC because he is the lesser of two evils. Why are government officials, elected and appointed, allowed to violate the Constitution of the US without penalty? What happened to checks and balances? What happened to laws against excessive interest, laws against false and misleading advertising, laws protecting workers? What happened to the USA?

Donald King
Donald King
1 year ago

Trump says something that could be taken either way and he’s immediately attacked for it. Biden can’t complete a cohesive sentence that you can understand in many cases, and he’s declared competent to direct our nation by the media. Get serious!

Liz Hunter
Liz Hunter
1 year ago

Excellent piece! I loved it.

Louise Dinan
Louise Dinan
1 year ago

How abt mandatory voter ID no more mail in ballots, early or late voting?? It’s very easy to play the numbers game with this still going on.The Republicans are for the most part do nothing’s except for a handful. It’s disturbing how Dems failed all the polls, but still won. You tell me. We are eat, buy gas, are disgusted with the borders and forget abt crime. You can’t walk down the streets in Philadelphia, but the mini Biden gets elected for Pa? People wake up. All these brainwashed college idiots who voted only care abt free stuff drugs and being able to murder the unborn. We have become a Godless and Soul less nation. Truly sad

Sydney
Sydney
1 year ago

McConnell ( and McCarthy) must go! Fact is that McConnell is severely compromised and cannot be trusted to put the legitimate interests of our nation and its citizenry first, over all else.

Independent
Independent
1 year ago

As a family of independents, we disagree with you. We supported Trump in 2016 & 2020 but we had enough of his arrogance & rhetoric! He is dividing the GOP & this is not good! Trump loss the independents in 2020 & GOP loss them in 2022. He degrades his fellow members during the mid-terms & this is not what leader does! He withheld funding when he is sitting with 100M, same for McConnell!
The party has a strong leader who pulled in Democrats, Independents as well as his own party! This is DeSantis! He is your leader along Youngkin!! Trump was part of the problem GOP loss the mid-terms. We didn’t see a win at all, but a loss! If you cannot win in AZ, GA & PA you will not win in 2024!! McCormick would have won PA, our family told us OZ would lose election after the primary!
GOP must not use Trump Georgia if you are to save the Senate! Trump is Toxic, bitter & as old as Biden! The country is begging for a young person & uniter. DeSantis is the man!
McConnell is a poor leader too. What leader withholds funds for their candidates! Supports an independent over his own party candidate! GOP made huge mistake by supporting Infrastructure/Green New Deal Bill & CHIP bill. You had Capito & Cassidy created Mileage Tax, why? GOP should never have voted for either of these bills and they continue to support billions to Ukraine while depleting our own military.
GOP loss mid-terms because of Trump, poor leadership in Congress, supporting bad spending bills, poor messaging and having no real detain plans for the future. All we are hearing from GOP are more investigations on Hunter, Covid, etc.. nothing about solving inflation, energy independence, reducing the debt, etc.

Terry Kelley
Terry Kelley
1 year ago

The author of this article is obviously out of touch with reality. It saddens me to see fellow Republicans blindly follow such a self absorbed narcissistic individual. It reminds me of the James Jones tragedy. Character still matters to me. If we want to take back the Whitehouse in 2024, we must nominate a candidate that is of better character that demonstrates considerably more emotional maturity than Donald Trump.

John D. Beach
John D. Beach
1 year ago

It is not a matter of how much money is spent on advertisements for nominees for offices. It is the fundamental policy positions of those nominees which determine how voters will vote. In most cases, voters’ are “values-driven.” Their minds are made up, already, concerning the issues and their values will align with party platforms on issues. When it is foreknown what the values of voters are, when elections do not reflect those foreknown facts, there is reason to question the validity of elections.
If pollsters and pundits are so incorrect in their running assessments of voters’ intentions in any election, there is no point to pollsters and pundits predicting anything because the information is of no value. If disaster is predicted, what we do to prepare for it is what, actually, matters! If government is about to turn on citizens, what we have done to prepare to defend ourselves from its abuses of power is what will matter!

USN Retired
USN Retired
1 year ago

Face it, we now live in a banana republic. I believe the Democrats tipped the scale with all these mail-in votes. If audited I’m inclined to think many mail-ins are from dead people and imaginary people. When will the average American wake up and see what’s going on? After the government declares total (communist) control? Is that when these sheep wake up? Will be too late if so.

Yos
Yos
1 year ago

American reality in 2022:
1. Republicans truly need to get over Trump. Either unite behind him or kick him to the curb!
2. Reality is that the left is at least half of the voters in the country. Years of indoctrination have produced the results we see. It’s cool to be trans! It’s cool to drive a battery-powered car!
3. Voting laws need to be overhauled. How can FL with three million votes cast, be finished counting them on election night? How can it take up to two weeks for NV to count votes, when the state barely has three million people?
4. Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy,

Peter and Nancy Walten
Peter and Nancy Walten
1 year ago

Amazing article! Trump is the best man for the job.

Peter
Peter
1 year ago

I wholeheartedly agree with you! Trump is truly a American Hero! I love his tweets! I love Trump’s sense of humor —> “I didn’t call all women fat, I only called Rosie O’Donnell fat”! I love Trump’s national and foreign policies! I voted for Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. Biden is not a Constitutionally elected President! Trump is my President! May God Bless Trump! May God Bless We The People!

Roberta Bloom
Roberta Bloom
1 year ago

I believe nobody could have rallied the base with such enthusiasm, as Donald Trump at his Rallies. Millions of Republicans have been to the Rallies and love this man, for his brightness and enthusiasm which he drums up. The Rhinos in the republican,party, such as, Mitch McConnell could not
hold a candle to Donald J. Trump. He is the man to lead a Free America from the clutches of
the global elitists in Government. today. The first thing they would do, is to tear up the Constitution, bill of Rights, declaration of independence. They would be a one- party ruler under Marxism/Communism. Donald J. Trump would fight with his last breath to save America and keep
the Liberties intact.

Edgar Bustamante
Edgar Bustamante
1 year ago

Hipocrisy is the name of the game, those who criticize President Trump actually are the ones holding up our MAGA movement, predators whose only agenda is that of self favoritism, despicable traitors and sorry losers.

Rey
Rey
1 year ago

Great analysis.
Now what about voter fraud and these elections recently taking way to long to declare a winner
Delays, mail in ballots equal corruption.

Joe
Joe
1 year ago

Truly pathetic to see Trump attacking the best governor in America.

Trump is a truly repulsive human being.

Joe
Joe
1 year ago

Trump is a pathetic egomaniac. I hope the Dems put him in prison.

essay
essay
1 year ago

Trump, even if his policies are good, is polarizing and incites to action not only Democrats, but also Independents and some Republicans. If the Republicans fail to acknowledge and accept that, they will not win. Trump is the only person who has and would lose to Biden.

Heather
Heather
1 year ago

Could not agree more. However Trump bashing DeSantis is not acceptable. I love Trump and the maga agenda but feel DeSantis should be the new face leading us forward. Trump is just too decisive.

Patriate Henry
Patriate Henry
1 year ago

Take a hike trolls……GO MAGA…

Sid
Sid
1 year ago

Ferret Face McConnell needs to go! This guy is a self serving RINO Nazi.

Dave Campbell
Dave Campbell
1 year ago

I see the trolls have discovered AMAC.

You’vegottabekidding
You’vegottabekidding
1 year ago

Let me get this straight, he got into office in 2016 with less than half the popular vote, lost the house in 2018, lost the house and the senate in 2020, and Tuesday, his candidates likely failed to win the senate and failed to achieve a substantial house majority—in a year that was overwhelmingly favorable to republicans, and yet he’s still an asset?

Ok.

Christopher Addazio
Christopher Addazio
1 year ago

As a proud liberal – PLEASE run Donald Trump in 2024 (I almost want the impending indictments not to happen). Trump is the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic Party – a microcosm of the bigotry, cronyism, and moral bankruptcy of the modern GOP. A mascot of bad governance. I truly hope dimwitted conservatives/neofacists buy Seamus’ dreck about there being no Trump fingerprints on this electoral disaster. Please wheel out the old and decrepit Manhattan Mussolini. I dare you

MatthewK
MatthewK
1 year ago

Does someone want to explain to me what, specifically, is so impressive about DeSantis? I mean he’s fine…but Florida is fast on its way to becoming the GOP version of California. The site hasn’t elected a Democrat as governor since the 1990s. DeSantis didn’t appreciably outperform Rubio, and we’ve seen how well Rubio plays at the national level.

The Florida state house is overwhelmingly Republican. The state senate is more than 2:1 Republican. A US President who enjoyed the level of party control that DeSantis enjoys in Florida would have almost 300 reps and ~70 (!) Senators. A moldy potato could advance the GOP agenda with those kinds of numbers.

And what exactly are his big accomplishments? Opposition to lockdowns? That started in South Dakota and Georgia. Shipping illegals to Massachusetts? Texas originated that plan. Opposition to CRT/gender teachings in schools? As far as I know, DeSantis only really picked up on that after it proved popular in other places.

DeSantis looks to me a lot less like a warrior who challenges any kind of leftist status quo than a traditional right-leaning politician who embraces policies that are politically safe, on comfortably right-wing territory.

What’s he got to offer those of us in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania?

Michael X
Michael X
1 year ago

Agreed, we need new leadership. McConnell should step down. That does not change the fact that Trump’s influence has been harmful for GOP control of the senate. I voted for him twice BTW. We need new leaders here also. Time for Trump to step back.

nuts
nuts
1 year ago

idiot

Marlene Sharrer
Marlene Sharrer
1 year ago

Well said! ????

Cinncinnatus
Cinncinnatus
1 year ago

Agreed that McConnell bears a lot of the blame here. The DC class thought this was a cakewalk and brought a pea shooter to a gun fight.

But Trump’s disparaging comments on Desantis right before and after the election are the final straw for me. At least Desantis delivers on his promises. Trump wasted his time in office by not cleaning up the swamp in any significant way and showed poor judgement many times starting with keeping Comey, having Jared as an advisor to his two week to stop the spread. I’m tired of all the petty drama that comes with Trump.

JHL
JHL
1 year ago

This is a joke. You’re claiming that Republicans won House and probably the Senate. Want to bet? Kari Lake too? Trump is a moron who everyone hates — and all he’s done since Tuesday is attack DeSantis, a guy who is the brightest star in the party. Not some criminal idiot.

rwisrael
rwisrael
1 year ago

When referring to Trump as “poisonous” or disruptive, please recall that ANY Republican candidate for President has been and will be reviled by the media . McCain, Romney, Poppa Bush, etc. were all reviled as evil even though they had been supported as “good” Republicans prior to their candidacies.

Maga Scientist
Maga Scientist
1 year ago

A lot of people on here are believing the blue mirage hype. There are no moral victories on politics and taking the House and probably the Senate is a win in my book. Trump went 179-7 in his endorsed candidates and yet the standard cowards want to run to DeSantis? If DeSantis was really a threat to the national left the media would be trying to destroy him now. Instead they are claiming he walks on water. If the media is all in on a narrative you can bet that it is false, and the blue gaslightling about this being a loss for a man who had a 96% win rate on Tuesday just proves too many conservatives still want positive coverage from the NY Times rather than actual political victories.

CEO
CEO
1 year ago

The time for Trump has passed. The GOP needs to move in a sustainable direction and with a candidate that does not invoke more anger and frustration than consideration for any policies. DeSantis is the new leader that Trump helped build, but Trump is too small-minded to let that happen.

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