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Trump's name wasn't on the ballot, but his influence was the reason Republicans lost so badly.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/11/his-name-wasnt-on-ballot-but-donald.htmlThe fact of the matter is that if his name had been on the ballot, the results of last night's off year elections would have very likely been much worse for Republicans than they were.
The very early tweets in the evening, when it became pretty obvious shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern time that there wasn't an election happening on November 4th that was going to go the way of any Republican, were as predictable as snowfall in Chicago in the winter. Trump's fragile ego fractured before 20% of the votes had been tabulated in the New York City mayor's race, where he invested most of his personal influence and the lies poured forth.
It's a political pattern we have seen every time Trump has inserted himself into politics. He won a quirky, and perhaps rigged Presidential election in 2016, and within two or three months of being in office, his gross negligence, personal ignorance, ego-driven policy and general incompetence cost the GOP all the way down the road until he was beaten by Biden in 2020. And then, as practical and legal inaction on the part of the Justice department kept the door open for the indicted criminal to run again, the same thing happened. He wins a very narrow election victory, highly questionable given the number of reports of possible rigging and cheating, and then the Republicans start on another downhill slide to the next election threshold.
Everything about yesterday's election indicates that the biggest factor in every Republican loss--and in almost every case they weren't just "losses," they were total bomb-outs--was the ever present essence of Trump's influence, from open endorsements to his putting in an awful lot of time and energy himself in support of Republican candidates, especially his endorsees, not one of whom came close to winning. There is absolutely no question in the analysis we have seen up to this point. Trump was the biggest reason Republicans were beaten into the ground yesterday.
The very early tweets in the evening, when it became pretty obvious shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern time that there wasn't an election happening on November 4th that was going to go the way of any Republican, were as predictable as snowfall in Chicago in the winter. Trump's fragile ego fractured before 20% of the votes had been tabulated in the New York City mayor's race, where he invested most of his personal influence and the lies poured forth.
It's a political pattern we have seen every time Trump has inserted himself into politics. He won a quirky, and perhaps rigged Presidential election in 2016, and within two or three months of being in office, his gross negligence, personal ignorance, ego-driven policy and general incompetence cost the GOP all the way down the road until he was beaten by Biden in 2020. And then, as practical and legal inaction on the part of the Justice department kept the door open for the indicted criminal to run again, the same thing happened. He wins a very narrow election victory, highly questionable given the number of reports of possible rigging and cheating, and then the Republicans start on another downhill slide to the next election threshold.
Everything about yesterday's election indicates that the biggest factor in every Republican loss--and in almost every case they weren't just "losses," they were total bomb-outs--was the ever present essence of Trump's influence, from open endorsements to his putting in an awful lot of time and energy himself in support of Republican candidates, especially his endorsees, not one of whom came close to winning. There is absolutely no question in the analysis we have seen up to this point. Trump was the biggest reason Republicans were beaten into the ground yesterday.
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