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.
Not alarmed enough to actually enact policies that are popular with the majority of the people.
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”
No worries there are only establishment Democrats and the “progressives” are actively working against the “vote them out” mantra adopted after the last elections.
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.
Fair point.
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.
The “big red button” is not in the voting booth
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.
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.
Expect +80% of them to still vote red no matter what.
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.
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.
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.
Guillotine for president 2026!
A ‘wipeout’, they would still control two of three, but it’s going to be disastrous!
We need more than ‘shave down their lead’
All I have to say to them is:
G-G-G-G-GET FUCKED-ucked-ucked-ucked-ucked-ucked
I’m not hoping for it … America has a habit of being dumb as a brick and electing people that eat crayons.
Not if Schumer and Jeffries have anything to say about it…
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.
Run in the primary for your House of Representative seat to do everything Formfiller said.
Well then it’s guillotine time I guess.
You still had any hope? lmao
You are cattle to the billionaires, regardless of what color they wear.
The 2026 optimistic projection is House Democrat majority, and Senate Republican majority (but narrower majority than now). And Trump will still be President in 2026.
How are Democrats supposed to imprison (executive branch) or impeach (Senate required for conviction) in 2026?
Just the house is powerful if the Democrats are brave. They can force concessions on bills, continue investigating corrupt bullshit, and impeach judges and cabinet members (Trump himself probably isn’t a good idea). A 51-49 Senate looks a lot different when Republicans are facing a post Trump world. Trump can pardon people, but that doesn’t prevent removal from office or impeachment trials.
