Republican Senate and House candidates don’t have much to campaign on. On the issues that Trump won in the last election, the script has flipped. This isn’t a pro-Democrat opinion piece, it’s an honest rundown of the issues where Republicans no longer have anyone else to blame.
On illegal immigration, Republicans can’t say it’s out of control because Trump’s administration runs DHS and ICE.
Republicans can’t blame Biden for inflation. This is Trump’s economy.
They can’t blame a Senate or House Majority blocking their agenda. Repubilcans control both.
Republicans can’t push for tariffs, because the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s legal reasoning for the order, but even if SCOTUS had not made that decision, Republicans wouldn’t be able to cite tariffs as a political win. Trump’s tariffs raised prices on American consumers, and failed to improve the US’s standing in the trade deficit.
Republicans can’t pledge to fix high gas prices, because, they’re just as high as they were during the Biden administration.
They can’t pledge to end wars and foreign conflicts, as a result of Trump’s strikes in Iran and Venezuela.
Where does that leave them? Social issues. Trump’s admin is pushing toward pot decriminalization. Even if the feds ultimately make recreational pot free, that won’t give the GOP the majority of young voters when they can’t pay their bills
If Trump pushes for other left-leaning social reforms, he risks losing more Republicans, and he has already been losing many from the MAGA crowd since his failure to release all of the Epstein files, record-high national spending, and his launch of the Iran war