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Politico analysis reported that the blue wave in the midterm elections has reshaped the US political landscape, turning several states in Texas, the Northeast and the Midwest into swing states. It is very difficult for the Republican Party to garner 270 electoral votes in the 2028 presidential election.
Politico news website analyzed on the 4th that the Red State Railway Ballot Bureau wasdemocratic party The “blue wave” attack is not only a strong rebuke of President Trump by voters, but also a political earthquake that could fundamentally change the electoral landscape.republican party The path to getting the 270 electoral votes needed for election in the 2028 presidential election suddenly narrowed.
The power map of presidential elections, which had long been red or blue, completely collapsed in the midterm elections. New Congress will take chargeLok Sabha Budget Committee Chairman Brendan Boyle, a state representative who has long studied political history, said that after a generation, the original political map looks very rigid as there are more and more swing states.
He said the political map has been used repeatedly over the past quarter century, but everything has changed.
The change began in Texas. The prediction that Texas would flip from red to blue finally came true after circulating for over a decade. Democrats picked up seats in the U.S. Senate and also swept elections for governor and nearly all state offices.
Texas has 40 electoral votes, second only to California, which has 54 electoral votes. It was originally the Republican Party’s largest defeat in a presidential election, but has now become an undisputed swing state. If the Republican Party cannot retain Texas’s 40 electoral votes, it will have almost no chance of winning the presidency.
The Democratic Party has long controlled the western United States on the Pacific Coast, but this election it regained its strength in the Interior West, retaining the governorships of Arizona and New Mexico, and also gaining the governorship of Nevada.
Kansas, which has always been a red state, appears more like Colorado, its neighbor to the west, than the Great Plains states in this election. Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor, defeated incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall by more than 5%.
Iowa, a state that Trump has won each of the three times he has run for the presidency, is now back to being a battleground from decades ago. Democratic candidate Rob Sands won the gubernatorial election by 10%, while Josh Turek won the US Senate election.
The Democratic Party easily retained the governor’s office in the “blue wall states” of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and won the governorship and federal senatorship in Ohio, which was considered a red state. These states have not seen such a blue-violet color since 2006.
Maine U.S. Senator Susan Collins lost her bid for the sixth consecutive term, leaving the Republican Party without a U.S. senator from New England for the first time since its founding. In other words, it is almost certain that the Republican Party will not win the electoral votes in the Northeast.
The Republican Party still retains Florida’s governor and federal senators, making Florida the Republican Party’s last bastion in a major state.
How to collect 270 electoral votes? The Democratic Party alone has 135 votes in six reliably blue states, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California, Oregon on the West Coast, and Washington, half of its target. If Texas, Florida and other “Sunbelt” states become unpredictable battlegrounds, there will be no clear path to victory for the Republican presidency.
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Because after the midterm elections, there was a clear resurgence of the Democratic Party in many large states and areas that were originally red, which reduced the fixed vote base that the Republican Party could rely on and had to compete in more swing states, making it more difficult to reach the 270-vote threshold.
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Texas has 40 electoral votes and was an important trophy for the Republican Party in the past. If Texas becomes a true swing state and is even approached by the Democratic Party, the Republican Party will almost lose its most important pillar leading to the White House.
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That includes Texas flipping from red to blue, western states like Arizona and Nevada returning to Democratic gains, and Republican seats shrinking in Maine and New England; These changes show that the originally planned red-blue map is disintegrating.
