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.
Guillotine for president 2026!
I would like BOTH parties to go extinct. The Democratic leadership has no spine and waffles at best, the Republicans are evil by default.
They’re both owned by Israel. Nothing is going to change until we end the Israeli occupation of our government
lol “one party could do better while the other will murder every man woman and child in sight, they’re both the same!!”
Not at all what they said. What they said was one party is right wing light, the other is fascist, and due to that we need entirely new parties.
Try gaslighting somewhere else.
That’s literally not what they said but okay.
Gaslighting some more? Damn you’re stupider than MAGA.
Projection much?
After so much crying wolf, you’ve got to be super stupid to believe anything Republicans say for 2026. They should have zero credibility for supporting the Liar in Chief. Of course, there’s still a lot of weak marks ready to be conned again. Wise up, American voters!
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, and allow huge increases in heath care 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.
Democratic donors be like: “we can run anyone and they can’t say no!”
That’s why we NEED progressives in the primaries. The real battles will be in that race. If establishment Democrats keep control, Republicans will sweep again from 2028 or 2032; just like what happened after Trump’s first term.
I hate that we have fight the Democrats to keep the Democrats alive, but we do.
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 get from hurting others isn’t worth the pain they’re experiencing themselves. I hope its soon.
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.
They are so addicted to their right-wing echo chamber media that they will never know that Orange Jesus is fully responsible for any of the direct pain they will experience. All they will hear is that somehow it’s all Joe Biden and Barack HUSSEINs fault that they can’t afford to stuff their faces.
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.
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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.
Right! Like 2a people would overthrow a fascist dictator at home with 34 convicted felonies and a treason, like they didn’t cave by checks notes caving to a budget impasse right after a bunch won elections this very month.
Don’t forget adjudicated rapist.
We’re all 2a people
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The US system is so horrendously and completely biased towards the GOP, I don’t think polls mean much. Most of the country and can not want a Republican and they’ll still be “fairly” elected.
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. I can only imagine the impassioned whining if the situation were reversed.
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.
Wrong.
Why? because it feels better to say the system is rigged than admit Democrats sold out the working class across the country and are reaping the benefits?
All I have to say to them is:
G-G-G-G-GET FUCKED-ucked-ucked-ucked-ucked-ucked
G-GE-GET-GET F-GET FU-GET FUC-GET FUCK-GET FUCKE-GET FUCKED-ET FUCKED-T FUCKED-UCKED-CKED-KED-ED-D
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 a caravan of immigrants will magically appear a few weeks before the election again and magically disappear the day after.
“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.
Expect +80% of them to still vote red no matter what.
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. In addition, nothing gets Republicans more aroused than taking freedoms away from people they don’t like and making them suffer. Authoritarianism is an excellent way of doing just that. Trump and his ilk are nearly perfect reflections of their sadistic MAGA base.
A significant majority of the GQP base and has already chosen full blown authoritarian fascism.
Politics loves our short term memory. They just need the right timing of some media story or crisis and people forget everything before.
Can’t wait to see how the Democrats either fuck this up entirely or just fail to do anything productive with the gains.
I’m not hoping for it … American has a habit of being dumb as a brick and electing people that eat crayons.
The last time Republicans played with tariffs, it took them about a decade to regain power and about three decades to regain the initiative in the debate. Unless they break democracy and invalidate the results somehow, I think that’s where we’re headed.
A ‘wipeout’, they would still control two of three, but it’s going to be disastrous!
We need more than ‘shave down their lead’
Not if Schumer and Jeffries have anything to say about it…
