MORNING GLORY: The GOP gets knocked out in the first round

After Tuesday night’s "thumping" — the word President George W. Bush utilized to picture the GOP’s predetermination nighttime aft the Republicans got hammered by Democrats successful the 2006 elections — President Donald Trump has immoderate large decisions to make.

Does helium bring successful immoderate reinforcements, similar outgoing Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, whose 2021 triumph successful Virginia looks adjacent much awesome against the heavy bluish look of Virginia Tuesday night, and absorption similar a laser connected the 7 Senate seats and 2 twelve House seats up for grabs successful a year? 

Or does helium propulsion hard for what the Senate Republican Caucus volition astir assuredly not give: the extremity of the filibuster. The palmy developer successful the president should emergence to the apical and driblet the intolerable task and determination to the doable ones which person large imaginable instead. 

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No sugar-coating Tuesday: Even the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets had amended weeks than the GOP — the Browns had a bye and the Jets made bold moves to cod draught picks. 

Tuesday wasn’t a realignment. The elemental world is 3 bluish states got bluer with Trump successful the White House, and portion determination are dashed hopes astir Jack Ciattarelli’s contention successful N.J., and not a small daze implicit extremist Jay Jones’ triumph arsenic lawyer wide successful Virginia, the 2026 midterms volition beryllium a wholly antithetic question, 1 which could spell either way. The Fed volition chopped rates a fewer times, helping the system and homebuyers, and caller and antithetic substantive issues volition thrust antithetic results. Either enactment could "win" oregon "lose" adjacent year, and that result, successful turn, won’t foretell 2028. 

What matters astir and instantly close present successful authorities is the redistricting of Congressional maps successful reddish states that tin bash it, and the prime of Senate candidates and campaigns. Republicans request to get their sharpest pencils retired and consult the champion redistricting minds and wholly follow the Democratic attack successful Massachusetts and Illinois. Virginia’s Democrats are going to travel the illustration of California’s Democrats and effort to erase each reddish districts successful the Commonwealth. Republicans should not beryllium shy oregon fearfulness the treble modular employed by coastal media elites which blast GOP redistricting portion turning unsighted eyes astatine Democratic plays for Congressional power.  

The second-layer reflection noted supra that bears repeating: Outgoing Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin was an bonzer campaigner to person fought to a triumph successful a precise bluish Virginia 4 years ago. Expect Youngkin to beryllium among the figures astir successful request wherever Senate seats are up for grabs — successful Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire (and little truthful successful Iowa and Ohio, but determination should beryllium nary taking-for-granted immoderate Senate seat.) The soon-to-be erstwhile Virginia politician is simply a large gully and Youngkin needs to beryllium recruited to rise run dollars and get Scott Pressler and his voting registration instrumentality to places similar Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina particularly to get the GOP basal bigger and energized. 

State legislatures that tin redistrict, ought to. Texas and California bespeak the blunt realities of the caller "red-blue" dynamic successful America, and are drafting the maps to payment their parties and being unapologetically ruthless astir it. So too, should each different authorities admit that the aged rules are gone. Jay Jones winning successful Virginia contempt his deranged substance messages, and Zohran Mamdani’s triumph successful New York City, contempt his extremism, underline the 2 caller realities of that each red-blue battles are "national" and that the Democrats person lurched left, again.

The near dominates the Democrats, and their "moderates" are not mean astatine all. The willingness to withhold paychecks from workers, clasp SNAP benefits hostage and coiled the aerial postulation power strategy telegraphs the attack of the Democrats.

"If you tin win, you should," is attributed to erstwhile President Barack Obama’s premier directive of politics. So it is "Chicago rules" everywhere, GOP. Watch Indiana, Florida and Missouri legislatures and their decisions connected redistricting to spot if this information has sunk in.

Trump has the unsocial quality to propulsion voters disconnected their couches and to the polls. He’s been connected a large winning streak astatine location and overseas and the GOP should anticipation helium focuses his singular reservoir of vigor connected raising wealth and spirits for 2026 — and different reconciliation measure successful aboriginal 2027 that puts a premium connected helping voters woody with the imperishable interaction of Biden inflation.

The "Ruthless" podcast from yesterday and contiguous volition beryllium absorbing to hear. They are existent governmental run professionals. There should beryllium zero panic among professionals who cognize that the tide charts of American authorities are beauteous fixed. But, arsenic the 2022 midterms showed, the "in" enactment doesn’t person to endure catastrophic losses successful the 2026 midterms, though they can. As the president doesn’t privation to spell done different ginned-up impeachment, he’s got an tremendous inducement to propulsion everything he’s got astatine 2026. 

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It's going to beryllium a amusive twelvemonth successful politics, and the Democrats’ hangover this week and adjacent and adjacent twelvemonth is Comrade Mamdani, the caller look of their enactment arsenic helium takes the reins successful NYC. His nonsense economics don’t work, and person ne'er worked. That reality, positive the imaginable of Trump-on-the-trail, should promote GOP voters this week. Like baseball, the four-year rhythm successful American authorities is simply a agelong season. A blow-out connected 1 nighttime says precise small astir the predetermination nights up successful 2026 and 2028. 

The self-sorting of Americans into reddish and bluish camps continues and so is accelerating. That’s the biggest takeaway. Stare that world consecutive successful its eyes. It’s the cardinal governmental information of this epoch successful American politics. Deal with it GOP. 

Hugh Hewitt is big of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET connected the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast connected Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America connected implicit 400 affiliates nationwide, and connected each the streaming platforms wherever SNC tin beryllium seen. He is simply a predominant impermanent connected the Fox News Channel’s quality roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays astatine 6pm ET. A lad of Ohio and a postgraduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law astatine Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 wherever helium teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous vigor amusement from Los Angeles successful 1990.  Hewitt has often appeared connected each large nationalist quality tv network, hosted tv shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for each large American paper, has authored a twelve books and moderated a people of Republican campaigner debates, astir precocious the November 2023 Republican statesmanlike statement successful Miami and 4 Republican statesmanlike debates successful the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his vigor amusement and his file connected the Constitution, nationalist security, American authorities and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump implicit his 40 years successful broadcast, and this file previews the pb communicative that volition thrust his radio/ TV amusement today.

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