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Following the Republican Party’s disastrous defeat in the midterm elections, Trump blamed himself for lack of turnout, while party insiders blamed decisions such as tariffs, the Iran war, and mistaken nominations for the party’s defeat.
The New York Times reported on the 4th,republican party After a crushing defeat in the midterm elections.trump The President and Republicans exchanged accusations. Trump said it was his fault for not being listed on the ballot this time, while party insiders said the defeat was entirely Trump’s fault.
On the evening of the 3rd, the deadline was still open for some constituencies across the country.vote On this occasion, Trump said in an interview with The New York Times: “I’m not on the ballot, and because I’m not running, we can’t mobilize enough people to come out and vote.”
But with this the Republicans started pointing fingers at Trump. Many Republicans said that the Republican Party’s loss of control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, its worst performance in midterm elections in decades, was a direct result of many of Trump’s decisions in the year before the midterm elections, such as tariffs, the Iran war, and war-related price increases.
Some Republicans have questioned Trump’s political instincts, believing that Trump tried to promote weak candidates and embarked on unrelated campaign trips in the final weeks before the election, causing the Republican Party to lose its chance to win.
“Trump is almost daring Americans to vote against him,” said Michigan Republican election strategist Jason Roe.
Roy analyzed that Trump’s final campaign before the election was “nothing more than a selective tour of all the annoying ways one can offend the American people.” He said that Trump’s analysis of the election results was absolutely “ridiculous” and that Trump was therefore the “engineer of the Republican collapse.”
Some Republicans defended Trump, while others called for the party to divest from Trump. In the last two years of his tenure, questions are being raised about how much influence Trump will still have in the Republican Party.
Republican Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon, who will retire in January next year, said it was “nonsense” to blame the Republican Party’s defeat on Trump not participating in the election.
“This is completely self-centered again,” Bacon said.
Bacon said the number one reason for the Republican Party’s defeat was Trump’s unpopularity, followed by Trump’s support for weak candidates in several key Senate districts, including Ken Paxton and Lindsey Graham.
Bacon said: “We even lost the U.S. Senate from South Carolina, so what the hell.” He said the problem lies with Trump pushing unsuitable candidates into office.
Colorado Republican consultant Dick Wadhams said that most of the Republican candidates who lost Senate seats in red states were candidates personally recruited or endorsed by Trump, and the results showed that voters in these states expressed their opposition to Trump through their ballots.
“This is not a vote for the Democrats, this is a vote against Trump,” Wadhams said.
Craig Shirley, a former White House staffer under President Ronald Reagan and presidential historian who has published a biography of Trump, said the midterm elections are a “huge embarrassment” for the Republican Party. He said the Iran war has obviously dealt a huge blow to the Republican election. “If this war had not happened the election results would have been completely different.”
