Opinion
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Republicans lost in an Alabama U.S. Senate race for the first time in 25 years.
Republicans lost the Virginia governorship last month, despite Ed Gillespie getting more votes than any Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state’s history. They also lost 14 House of Delegates seats, and four races are still being recounted – enough for Republicans to potentially lose control after 17 years in the majority.
In New Jersey, an unpopular Republican governor doomed the GOP candidate to a decisive defeat with 42 percent of the vote. Despite this outcome, the legislative elections were essentially a draw.
The FiveThirtyEight.com estimates the current generic ballot is now 47.2 percent Democrat and 37.5 percent Republican. If this stabilizes at that level, 2018 will be a disaster for Republicans.
Those Republicans who take comfort from the special elections in the House of Representatives should look carefully at the details. Every special election the GOP has won since the 2016 elections has involved districts which are either strongly Republican or voted for President Trump. Despite massive spending by various GOP groups, these victories have all been smaller than the 2016 margins in the same districts.
In both Alabama and Virginia, the Democrats were energized and turned out.
Meanwhile, Republicans are divided: Alabama was a GOP civil war; many Republicans are unhappy with their leaders in Washington; and independents are being alienated by both the President and Congressional Republicans.
As a first step back from the edge of disaster, Republicans must pass tax cuts by the end of this year and continue economic growth.
However, it is increasingly clear that vastly more must be done.
Republicans need to spend January developing a new strategy capable of changing current patterns and maximizing their chance to keep the House. They also must increase their Senate majority by five or six, so it will be strong enough to keep the majority in 2020 when the playing field will favor Democrats.
Every Republican, beginning with the President and Vice President, needs to understand what a disaster Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would be.
By June, it may be too late to course-correct. Avoiding a Democratic wave election requires action now.
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Newt
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About Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich is well-known as the architect of the “Contract with America” that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in forty years. After he was elected Speaker, he disrupted the status quo by moving power out of Washington and back to the American people.
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You notice the democrap party sticks together like glue. The must get an email every morning about the talking points of the day and they do not deviate from the chosen communist verbiage. The repubs all function as individuals and do not stick together to get things done. Who is at fault in this, start within the commonwealth of Kentucky and proceed out from there. Don’t get to close to a Repub politician because they are constantly shooting themselves in the foot but the next time may be your foot. The primaries is the only place to try and fix… Read more »
It should be perfectly clear to anyone that the Republican Party needs new leadership. McConnell should retire.
Both Political Corporations lead to the same place, consolidating power in D.C. and the States becoming mere Colonies of the Central Government. The “Republican” Corporation is corrupt and owned by Globalists, the “Democrat” Corporation is corrupt and owned by the Communist Party. Both are owned by competing Globalist visions and neither obey’s the Constitution.
I have pretty much decided over the years the the Democrats and Republicans are nothing more than two sides of the same rotten corrupt coin. That being said, we as gun owners are still better off with the Republican side of the coin. I cannot believe the bad choices the Republicans put out there and maintain. Here in Arizona we have (hopefully had) two of the worst Senators in the country (Flake and McCain). Many of the elections over the last decade have been the Republicans’ races to lose, not win, simply because of who they chose to run, such… Read more »
The GOP is too busy squabbling internally to be effective – you have the RINO caucus (Collins, Graham, McCain, Murkowski, and a few others) who are busy being Democrat Lite, and libertarian-leaning Ron Paul to whom “good” is something to be fought because it’s not “perfect.” To me it looks like swamp dweller Mitch McConnell will do whatever he can to torpedo outsiders by working behind the scenes to defeat & hinder them; I really think he’d rather have a collegial Democrat rather than a maverick Republican filling a given office. I don’t even think he personally views Pelosi/Schumer in… Read more »
If the National Repub party keeps sending us corrupt, party hacks, then we will continue to refuse to vote for them. The National Repub party needs to go straight.