Republicans presently have 99 issues, and profitable might not be one.

The authentic Republican plan for the midterm election was to use their overwhelming money benefit to flip Senate seats in Michigan and Georgia while protecting or increasing their House majority by deploying Trump to swing districts that he won in 2024.

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The plan fell aside under the weight of an economic system that appears high-quality on paper, is nice for the wealthy, but is crushing common individuals through inflation and excessive costs.

An voters whose anger Trump and the GOP benefited from in 2024 has turned on the president and his occasion in 2026 and is even angrier.

Trump’s immigration and financial insurance policies have despatched the Hispanic voters that the occasion was counting on in the midterm election back to the Democratic Party.

Instead of selecting up Senate seats, Republicans are making an attempt to maintain on to their majority and taking part in protection in pink states like Texas, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, and Alaska.

Trump promised that he would be going around the nation in October to assist Republicans, but the president only has a internet optimistic approval ranking in 9 states, and the White House is sending him to pink states to attempt to save seats.