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intentionally pick terrible candidates based purely on their loyalty to me and not their ability to win
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they all lose in the same election Florida republicans get a blowout red wave, and the margins on the losses closely align with my loss in 2020
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numerous easily winnable races go down in flames because the majority of voters just don't like me, and therefore I'm a drag on candidates
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red wave is completely blunted, entirely my fault, just like the losses in the GA special senate elections were entirely my fault, and what do I do in response?
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I tweet a brag post about how republican Joe O'Dea lost to a democrat, taking credit for sabotaging him and ensuring a Democrat got elected instead.
I don't care if you Trumpers downvote me. Donald Trump is at this point a clear enemy of the Republican Party. He is a loser who got lucky in 1 squeaker election in 2016 and then has been ballot box poison ever since. He lies about voter fraud when the truth all along is that he's just a loser and a bad politician. He is at this point a total liability for the Republican Party and needs to be shunned until he learns to behave as a team player. He is an electoral dead end. This election should have been a total red blowout and orange man ruined it. Elections are won by convincing the middle to vote for you, and the middle in the US hates Trump with a burning passion. They'll never switch their votes to voting for him. They wouldn't vote for him even when overrun with trannies, joggers, groomers, and inflation.
Meanwhile Ron DeSantis is the only success story of tonight, and his great campaign and political acumen resulted in a big red wave in Florida. He clearly proved that he is the future if the Right actually wants to win. DeSantis totally closed the gap among hispanic voters and took more than 50% of the hispanic vote, a historic first for a statewide republican.
Trump is at this point the best thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. He's a proven loser who has accomplished nothing except to ensure Democrat win after Democrat win. And what's worse, is he brags about it and gloats about it because he doesn't give a slightest shit about the Right, he only cares about petty little ego shit.
Officially, he was not on the ballot. That said, virtually every D candidate ran ads saying "Oh no! Trumpers are coming to destroy everything!" and that's all the media would talk about. They did everything in their power to put Trump on the ballot. Though, I will agree abortion probably played a role too.
Question is if it had an effect. I don't think so. Trump purposefully kept himself in the background. And just looking at the exit polls, I see that those who hate both Trump and Biden voted GOP.
Abortion was a big issue and I guess the "democracy is on the ballot" motivated the democrats. Every election is the most important, every election "democracy is on the ballot" but it seems to still be working.
CNN was bemoaning that "democracy" (i.e., CNN telling you what to do and believe) was not a top 5 issue for voters.
It makes little sense, but the least unlikely scenario is that it was abortion (followed by fraud, and I'm not a 'MASSIVE FRAUD!!!!' kinda guy).
I hope that the democracy is on the line was not an issue but it kind of ties in to the republicans are evil narrative, it is getting tiresome.
The left controlling the media means it is always going to be an uphill battle.