The GOP doesn’t need Democrats to flip Republicans. They just need enough Republicans to stay home.
Republicans hit with ominous ‘historic losses’ warning…
Republicans are being warned of “historic losses” in the midterms, with a new polling aggregate showing the party trailing in eight major battleground Senate races just two months before voters head to the polls.
The warning comes from RealClearPolitics data and paints a grim picture for a party already facing an uphill battle to retain control of the House, given historical trends that work against whichever party holds the White House. Now the Senate map looks increasingly shaky too, with Republicans struggling even in reliably red territory like Texas and Ohio.
“It points out the obvious that Republicans are in pretty bad shape going into the midterms and that they’re looking at historic losses,” Republican strategist Terry Holt said of the bleak polling. “The question is whether some of these races can be saved with some miraculous turnout that apparently is going to be very expensive or whether or not the mood in this country can be changed fundamentally.”
According to the latest RCP aggregate, Republicans are down 2 points in Alaska, 7.5 points in Georgia, 2.3 points in Maine, 1.8 points in Michigan, 2.6 points in Ohio, 2 points in New Hampshire, 8 points in North Carolina, and 1.9 points in Texas.
MAGA diehards across some of the nation’s most competitive congressional districts are turning on President Donald Trump, with even three-time Trump voters ready to ditch him.
The warning comes from a series of late-August conversations NBC News conducted with voters in eight of the country’s most competitive congressional districts, stretching along Interstate 80 from central New Jersey to Omaha, Nebraska. Reporters found a new willingness among Trump voters to voice complaints about inflation, his war on Iran, and his outsized White House ballroom, even in places that voted heavily for him.
“Everything has just gotten more expensive,” said online perfume seller Louis Marcelino, 38, who has voted for Trump three times. He spoke from a barbershop in the Pocono Mountains foothills, where Trump held an affordability rally in December in an ill-fated bid to quell concern about kitchen-table issues.
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