The White House has warned more than 3,000 conservative groups that it is monitoring their public statements following the GOP’s crushing midterm defeat, the WSJ reports. Republicans are blaming Trump’s tariffs and the Iran war for losing control of Congress.
Newt's list of presidential candidates for the GOP: white 60-something men from the South, plus JD Vance.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning on stepping down from Trump’s Cabinet in the wake of the GOP’s midterm election shellacking to prepare his own bid for the White House.
If you look at the GOP, you see an America that is white, male, over sixty, overweight, and animated by the rhetoric of the white Evangelicals. If you look at the Democrats elected last night, you see an America that is, demographically assessed, just like the America that exists in fact.
The Iran war and related economic problems sure didn’t help the GOP. But it’s convenient for Vance to blame the midterm loss on the war, as if the rest is popular. Look at these graphs. Can’t spot the war in Trump’s approval decline. Biden’s drop from the Afghanistan withdrawal was more apparent.
Pete Hegseth fired Navy Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore for being a woman, so she ran in South Carolina’s 1st, a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024, and flipped it blue by about 3,300 votes. Hegseth is such a loser the GOP even loses deep red seats when he fires someone
After Republicans were soundly defeated in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the GOP’s knives are coming out for Stephen Miller. Leaks from within the Trump administration are targeting the White House adviser and deputy chief of staff for policy, with unnamed sources attacking him.
This is important. GOP Senate leadership decided to close down inquiries into JP Morgan's role in financing Epstein's foreign operations for reasons that never made any sense.
I wonder how much the Texas GOP's recent public, shocking mishandling of huge disasters - remember the multiple waves of deaths during ice storms and heat waves, and the July 4th 2025 floods that killed 136 people? - factored into the election outcome.
The author wrote that the Democrats would control 22 state "trifectas," consisting of the governor, the House, and the Senate. He added that, in his opinion, the GOP could pay for years for the consequences of Tuesday's blue wave. #Elezioni2023 #Politica #Democratici #US (translated)
Not only is Mike Johnson stepping aside as GOP leader after an absolute bloodbath, but now he gets to go home to Louisiana’s 4th and explain to ~38% of his district (or nearly 290K) how he led a bill making it possible to take their health care and called it a “leadership win.”
By rejecting Trump's demand for gerrymandering, the SC GOP retained control of the congressional delegation, which under the gerrymander would have been taken by the Democrats
POLITICAL NUCLEAR BOMB DETONATES OVER NEW YORK’S REPUBLICAN PARTY. The GOP wasn’t just defeated. It was blown off the electoral map. Democrats are poised to take 111 of 150 Assembly seats, while the once-mighty Senate GOP could be reduced to just 15 members. Total political annihilation.
The author argued that the forcefulness of the Republican Party's defeat in the midterm elections on Tuesday had even tested Donald Trump's ability to lie, disguise, and evade the consequences. (translated)
If the GOP really wants to show that they've learned anything from last night, Johnson, Thune, & John Barrasso would be visiting the White House tomorrow.
US corporate media said that ICE raids and data centers fueled the turn against the Texas GOP, but I think it's a good bit more complicated. The perception that the GOP leadership were a bunch of sleazy grifters fueled much of it, and what they did with charter schools was a prime example.
"The social block of Trump has collapsed. The domino effect could reach us." #Elezioni2026 #Trump #Gop (translated)
Santi C. argued that DJT should not attribute the electoral results to the agenda with which he returned to power, as he wrote, these depended mainly on the material situation of the citizens. He stated that the prolongation of the conflict in Iran and its impact on oil prices explained more than any other factor, and that DJT needed to successfully resolve the conflict in the Middle East to avoid a weakening of the international role of the United States. He added that he would not detail how he would address the conflict because his response would hurt sensibilities. After resolving it, DJT should focus, according to Santi C., on stopping immigration, securing the supply chains necessary to compete in the industrial race linked to AI, and prioritizing the "America First" doctrine, withdrawing the United States from conflicts he considered external and stopping support for allies that he believed were a burden. He also proposed combating the woke agenda, ending the Castro regime in Cuba, establishing reasonable voter identification rules, and ensuring a prosperous and democratic continent. Santi C. asserted that if he achieved those goals, the GOP would be easily reelected in 2028. #Política #Elecciones2024 #MedioOriente (translated)
House Republicans are expected to vote to directly repudiate Pete Hegseth in a matter of days. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the famously anti-Trump GOP lawmaker, plans to trigger a vote to impeach Hegseth when Congress returns next week — and multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass.
