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Burchett or Hageman.
If anyone from the current pool of incumbents becomes the leader, they will all get fired.
hell no...@MarshaBlackburn needs to appoint @timburchett to her Senate seat and TIM needs to be the Senate Minority Leader....none of those feckless Cucks who have been there the last 2 years can be trusted.
Corey Kilpack retweeted
GOP WINS: No more Collins. No more Cornyn. No more Tillis. No more Abbott. No more Cassidy. No more McConnell. No Graham clan.
No Vivek. No Marshall. No Rogers. Johnson out of leadership.
Now THAT’S a win.
Corey Kilpack retweeted
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
For two years, voters politely asked for an explanation and for this to stop. The Senate GOP decided the Senate Club is special and Republican voters were not worth their consideration.
11/3/26 was exactly what the Senate GOP wanted.
Dear @SenateGOP Senate Republicans:
It really pisses off your constituents when you gavel in those ridiculous Pro Forma sessions to block Pres Trump from recess appointments.
STOP DOING IT!!
Corey Kilpack retweeted
JD Vance may become the 48th president of the United States without an election
Corey Kilpack retweeted
John Thune will forever be remembered as a COWARD.
He had the power, the position, and the opportunity to stand up and fight. Instead, he chose political games, weak leadership, and the comfort of the Washington establishment.
When America needed a backbone, John Thune proved he didn’t have one.
His legacy will be one of weakness, failure, and cowardice.
It is simple really. Elected republicans hate the voters. The voters found something else to do.
Dear elected Republicans,
As a direct result of your failed leadership and repeated betrayals in putting Americans first, I will not be voting tomorrow.
This will be the first election I haven’t voted in since I was 18 years old.
You don’t have to worry about me going out and voting Democrat. I am not, and will never be, a liberal.
But I’m tired of my vote being taken for granted. I’m tired of the broken campaign promises.
So just know that at least one of the votes you were expecting on Election Day will not be showing up.
Sincerely,
3x Trump & down ticket Republican voter since 2008
I have been a critic of Baris. On this, however, he is not wrong. JD Vance may be the only GOP person in any level of government that has not outright betrayed their voters. Including Mike Lee, including Trump, including all of them.
I think Paxton wins and that dude in Michigan loses. There. I think the House flips and the John Thune will be elated with that result. I think nobody gives a damn what happens in the Senate races because it doesn't matter or change anything.
Corey Kilpack retweeted
Imagine putting together an entire halftime show based off of one woman doing a cover of Thunderstruck on xylophone……and having it KICK TOTAL ASS!
The criteria is simple. 9 seatbelts and be able to put a 4x8 sheet of plywood in cargo area with the seats folded down.
Corey Kilpack retweeted
Carrot Top has taken more cheap shots than almost anyone still working a Vegas stage, and Friday he was hospitalized in Las Vegas. His Luxor show was canceled. That isn’t a punchline. It’s a reminder that a famous person can still be in real trouble.
Scott Thompson has been on that stage for years. People mocked the hair, the props, the whole act, as if that was all he was. He kept showing up anyway. Criticism of a routine is fair. Treating a man in a hospital like content isn’t.
His family asked for privacy and said he’s receiving care. That should be the end of the public part. He doesn’t owe the internet a statement. He doesn’t owe anyone a joke about it.
If you’re struggling, get help. In the U.S. call or text 988. Leave Thompson alone and let him recover. A long career doesn’t make a person invincible. It just makes the silence after the show louder.
Correct. Sending the same clowns back and expecting a different result is clownish, at best.
The way to stop these deep state neocon RINOs is to remove them. Vote against ALL incumbents.
Republicans and Democrats. They will continue to ignore us until we do
We have a corruption problem in America
Republicans Seem To Want To Lose The Midterms. We Shouldn’t Let Them dailycaller.com/2026/09/04/r… via @dailycaller
Finally, something from Nate Silver that makes sense.
Shut down the Clips and put a new team in Seattle in 2026/2027.
The linked take is not an uncommon margin mentality right now: vote D and you may not like it, but at least you get what you voted for.
Choosing not to feel betrayed is a real choice. It may not show up yet in @QuantusInsights surveys or the registration and early-vote numbers from @earlyvotedata. That does not mean it is insignificant. At the edges, the fear of another cycle of disappointment is already doing work that a standard MOE can miss.
This is the same pattern as Harris in summer 2024. The debate style that needled and triggered landed with the base. It unsettled people who were still deciding (the margin). The delayed cost was no margin support and a predictable sweep of the seven swing states.
The GOP in 2026 is turning a vote for them into a compromise. A meaningful number of voters at the margin would rather not spend the next 2–6 years waiting to see whether they got sold something that does not show up. They may not vote. They may cross the line. Either way, they are trying not to buy the same risk twice. That is a simple response to conditions they already know.
Corey Kilpack retweeted
On the day of his death, McMahon sought out a final one-on-one exchange with his coach who had always kept his word.
“The day that LaVell was dying, Jim called, and I answered the phone. He said, ‘Pat, I want to tell coach I love him.’ And I said, ‘Tell him yourself’ — and he did,” said Patti. “He said, ‘Coach, I love you and thank you for everything.” Then LaVell said to him, ‘I love you Jim, take care of yourself.’”
When told about that final phone call, former BYU quarterback Steve Young had to fight back his tears, “because I know both of them really well,” he said. “That describes in clarity what I’ve tried to express — it’s that two really different people coming together and having a deep, abiding love for each other. If there’s ever any legacy of who LaVell is, it’s probably that last interchange between he and Jim.” 👉 deseret.com/sports/2026/08/2…
