Election 2025 – Republicans Need To Take Note
Claims of the death of the Democrat Party have been greatly exaggerated.
1: Four Blue States with Blue results. The major elections were in Blue states. If Dems had not won all those races, that would have been a major upset.
2. Republican turnout was low across the country, proof Republicans cannot count on Trump voters without Trump on the ballot. No Republican candidate has replicated Trump’s coalition to date. No Republican can simply drop his name in 2026 nor 2028. That means Republicans in 2026 and beyond need a record of results and an agenda on which they are united and which reaches the Trump coalition.
3. Rs need to rethink their conceit (a) that Ds are in terminable trouble and (b) that Republicans can win elections without full court press Voter turnout efforts. It is easy for a victorious party to get headstrong and claim the other party is on death’s doorstep. Republicans need to remember that Trump did not get 50% of the vote in 2024. In this Divided Era, while Congressional Democrats are not popular, their voters remain loyal. The CA results prove that hate Trump politics work for them. On the other hand, Republican voters do not turnout for every election in the same manner as Democrats. This election is a swing state warning to Republicans.
4. Republicans need to work harder to ensure economic results. Republicans took far too long to pass the tax bill. Such bills and deregulation take 6-8 months to produce results for the average voters. Republicans slow walked the bill. Yes, there will be benefits in 2026 that will help with the Midterms – just not public opinion now and certainly not for Election 2025.
5. Dems will be defined by NYC’s Mamdani, LA’s Bass and Chicago’s Johnson in the Midterms. The failures to come of those three will be highly visible in the months to come – especially Mamdani, whose arrogance will shorty be replaced by his incompetence. Democrats cannot hide from any them. Read more from this June article of mine in Fox.
Left, lefter and leftist: Democrats could be defined by radical, big city mayors – Three radical mayors governing 1 in 25 Americans could push the Democrat Party further left
6. Democratss embrace of Jay Jones in VA despite his death threat texts and Prop 50 in CA forever marks them as a party about power not ideals. Democrats have become the Party of Protests and violence. They also have embraced victory at all costs, including embracing despicable candidates such as Jay Jones in Virginia.
As for Prop 50, look at this Election Night poll.
Yet, Californians voted for Prop 50. Why? Well, not because Newsom cared about the State of California. Instead, he used California for his presidential campaign.
If I was Governor, and the state was 50th in opportunity, 50th in affordability and #1 in poverty, I would care about my state more than a political figure who will be gone in 3 years.
Beyond that, Republicans in California need leadership and to realize once and for all that television commercials do not win elections. Get Out the Vote Operations are essential.
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Thomas G Del Beccaro is a historian and Author of The Divided Era and The Lessons of the American Civilization.
