{"id":131,"date":"2025-12-12T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:09:22","slug":"looming-disaster-top-republicans-fear-certain-defeat-because-trumps-message-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socializenews.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"‘Looming disaster’: Top Republicans fear ‘certain defeat’ because Trump’s ‘message sucks’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump’s handpicked chairman of the Republican National Committee predicted a dismal\u00a0outcome\u00a0for the GOP in next year’s midterm\u00a0elections.<\/p>\n

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RNC\u00a0chairman Joe Gruters tried to set expectations for 2026 as low as possible,\u00a0according to The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger, after Democrats overperformed in special elections across the country and Republican confidence begins to droop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a secret, there\u2019s no sugarcoating it,” Gruters told Egger. “It\u2019s a pending, looming disaster heading our way … We are facing almost certain defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe chances are Republicans will go down and will go down hard,” he added. \u201cThis is an absolute disaster. No matter what party is in power, they usually get crushed in the midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Egger clarified that the RNC chairman was not throwing\u00a0Trump\u00a0under the bus, but Republican operatives in some swing states pushed the president in front of the bus.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHis message sucks, it\u2019s absolute trash,” said one veteran strategist. “\u2018Affordability is a Democrat hoax\u2019??? Give me a break. It\u2019s the non-college-educated version of the Biden message, and we saw how well that worked. . . . Nobody believes the economy and particularly affordability is getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Georgia-based Republican agreed and tied Trump’s messaging on that topic to this week\u2019s shock Democratic victory in a special election in a normally safe Republican state House district.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s landing like doo doo,” that Republican said.<\/p>\n

A third GOP strategist told Egger that Trump’s demand for loyalty will\u00a0hurt\u00a0Republicans next year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere have been past White Houses where it was okay to have some distance between yourself and the president,\u201d he said. \u201cA candidate who says, \u2018Yeah, maybe tariffs aren\u2019t a great idea because of what they\u2019re doing to prices,\u2019 or whatever the case may be . . . That is clearly not the case with this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump visited Pennsylvania this week for the first stop in a planned nationwide tour to reassure Americans about his economic strategy, but Republicans weren’t impressed with his message.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t going to get better unless he either, one, shuts off the tariffs and starts a real economic turnaround, or two \u2014 well, I don\u2019t know what two is,\u201d the first strategist said. \u201cI think the GOP is looking at a very rough midterm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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