As Trump openly acknowledges a big problem the GOP faces this fall, a Democratic strategist on House races explains what Dems think is really happening on the ground in all these hard-fought contests.

In an interview with Punchbowl News, Donald Trump said straight out that his voters just might not show up for GOP candidates this fall. That’s a striking admission of one of the thorniest problems the GOP faces. But it gets worse. Trump also declared that “a lot” of his voters are “not angry at me,” but “are very angry at Republicans.” That will likely be read by his supporters as a declaration that Republicans are failing Trump, and as encouragement to stay home. Meanwhile, polling shows MAGA voters turni…

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Do remember, though, that as soon as Democrats appear to have control (assuming they do), these people watching Fox and OANN and all the other propaganda outlets will immediately have the blame placed on Democrats, which they want to believe, and so they will. Trump was still cleaning up, you see, after two years, but now Democrats supposedly have control and haven’t immediately solved every problem, or the propaganda lies and says there’s all these problems caused by them - and they’re right back to voting red.

    So I just don’t hold out much hope.

    It doesn’t help that even if Dems take the House and the Senate both… you need a supermajority to ensure you can pass things, so the Republicans will continue to obstruct and pretend Dems can’t do anything when it’s them obstructing.