The verdict is in: Against massive public dissatisfaction with the direction of a country led entirely by Democrats, former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party still scared enough voters that it embarrassingly underperformed in this year’s elections.
The less Trump-like the Republican candidates, the better they did. In Ohio, centrist Gov. Mike DeWine outpolled Trump-selected Senate candidate J.D. Vance by more than 15 points . Trump actively trashed Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, but Kemp won his race easily. Meanwhile, Trump-chosen Senate candidate Herschel Walker, at this writing, is barely hanging on to relevance by his fingernails.
Again and again, Republicans are vastly falling short in races they thought, just 24 hours earlier, they would win. Sitting in their ideological bubble, party leaders refused to listen when they were told again and again that Trump scares or disgusts people so viscerally that he drives turnout among otherwise disappointed and apathetic Democratic-leaning voters.
Republicans probably will barely take a majority in the House, and they will probably fall short in the Senate. Going into Election Day, they expected to hold about a 35-seat House majority and at least 52, if not 54, of 100 Senate seats. This is a huge failure for the GOP, and the failure belongs at the feet of Trump and all those who kissed his feet.
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