Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Trump Era Is One of GOP Decline

Trump Wins. Other Republicans Lose

Posted by A_Friend at 10:30 AM | 68 COMMENTS | permalink

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A year after President Donald Trump's re-election, Republicans are already seeing their gains among Latino voters erode, recent election results and polling suggest. Here's what's changed and what it could mean for next year's midterm elections.

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) Nov 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM

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An OpEd from the Washington Examiner, as reposted by the American Enterprise Institute, or AEI...

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Here's one measure of the partisan shift in the Trump era: In 2016, Republicans controlled 31 governorships and 68 legislative chambers. Come January, the GOP will control only 26 governorships and 57 legislative chambers (more than a 15% reduction on both scores).

In the Trump era, here's the rule: Elections in which Trump is on the ballot, the GOP does fine. In elections in which he is not, the GOP does poorly.

This isn't just about incumbent disadvantage in midterm elections. Even during former President Joe Biden's presidency, when Trump was the head of the GOP, its most recent nominee, and its next nominee, Democrats historically performed well. For instance, in 2022, they gained trifectas in four states, taking control of the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, and winning the governorships of Maryland and Massachusetts " all while their party controlled the White House.

Source: www.aei.org

#1 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-17 05:54 PM

Decline doesn't quite say it...'GOP goes into 'Spin, Crash and Burn mode' says it better.

#2 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-11-17 05:58 PM

#2 I am experiencing vast amounts of Schadenfreude, watching the internecine warfare going on within MAGA.

'Tis a wonder to behold, and a complete justification for my recent investment in popcorn ahead of the Trump tariff tax forthcoming.

A wonder, I tell you!

To behold!

#3 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-17 06:09 PM

They picked trump because of pre-trump decline. Deplorables for the "win".

#4 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-11-18 11:11 AM

Is Trump the AntiChrist or Something?

I Mean WTF.

When that SOB finally Dies they better put a holly stake through his Heart to Be Sure.

He might Come Back.....

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-18 12:44 PM

Remember back when Joe Biden was talking up student loan forgiveness and he emptied the Strategic Petroleum Reserves to lower gas prices??? Remember what was coming soon after that??? Midterms.

Trump is going to hold those tariff dividend checks until summer of 2026. and most of you will cry that he used it to buy the midterms.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-18 02:29 PM

Trump is going to hold those tariff dividend checks until summer of 2026. and most of you will cry that he used it to buy the midterms.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And you'll applaud it after admitting that you attacked biden for doing something similar.

Only biden didn't RAISE the price of gas himself which required using the petroleum reserve.
Trump HIMSELF raised the price of goods, which makes americans need assistance cash.

Trump is great at 20 percent fixing a problem that he 100 percent created.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-18 02:36 PM

which required using the petroleum reserve.

Whatever happened to Lewzer filling that back up anyway? The rate of level increase is lower since he took over in January.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-18 02:57 PM

#6 Ain't gonna be any dividend checks. The tariffs are illegal, they're gonna have to be paid back.

And American memories might be short, but we're going to remember WHY prices went up on everything, and who did it. Midterms are less than a year away, Stinky is still trying to hurt us with more tariffs.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-11-18 07:39 PM

Biden forgives student loans, Biden sells out energy reserves....

Whatever happened to Lewzer filling that back up anyway?
#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-18 02:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

Biden's mistakes are now somehow Trump's to fix.. Ladies and Gentlemen, you have a retarded Kanuck to correct. lewzer

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-18 08:34 PM

Biden's mistakes are now somehow Trump's to fix.

Lewzer promised to fill it back up. He didn't.

Promises not kept.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-18 08:40 PM

Lewzer promised to fill it back up. He didn't.
Promises not kept.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL

Stick to Canada DialAgain, you know nothing about America.

US Slowly Replenishes Strategic Petroleum Reserve into 2025 - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow.com EnergyNow

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-18 09:25 PM

"We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top, and export American energy all over the world." - Lewzer, Inaugural address, January, 2025

Biden was filling it faster when he left office.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-18 09:36 PM

Biden was filling it faster when he left office.
#13 | Posted by REDIAL

So....

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-18 10:28 PM

So it's been an era of epic wins and no republican decline.

#15 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-11-18 10:43 PM

"Biden's mistakes are now somehow Trump's to fix."

Well isn't that the whole point of changing leadership?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-18 10:48 PM

"Trump is going to hold those tariff dividend checks until summer of 2026. and most of you will cry that he used it to buy the midterms."

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#17 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2025-11-18 11:18 PM

Biden's mistakes are now somehow Trump's to fix.. Ladies and Gentlemen, you have a retarded Kanuck to correct. lewzer

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Even IF your fantasy about biden's mistakes was real...
Trump campaigned on fixing biden's mistakes you moron. Trump is the whiniest bitch on the planet when he has all the power and all the advantages. And he make you losers lower your standards so far that you now don't expect trump to fix anything.

EVERY president has to fix mistakes from the past. Only one whines about it this much. If you can't address past mistakes you're in the wrong job.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 12:08 AM

So it's been an era of epic wins and no republican decline.

#15 | Posted by THEBULL

And the brainwashed morons root for the billionaires and con men to continue raping them.

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 12:09 AM

In Presidential elections Republicans' racism is the dominant issue for them but in Mid-term elections their own economic interests are the most important issue.

#20 | Posted by danni at 2025-11-19 07:29 AM

Is "America First" really just a euphemism for "America Alone"? The damage Trump is doing to America's standing in the world will take decades to repair for "America Alone"? Trump's foreign policies are damaging America's relationships with other nations around the world which will take decades to repair. Such a stupid person that we are embarrassed by on a daily basis!

#21 | Posted by danni at 2025-11-19 07:38 AM

I wish it was just Republicans decline but, unfortunately, it is really American decline! It will take decades for America to heal from the Trump disease!

#22 | Posted by danni at 2025-11-19 08:05 AM

I wish it was just Republicans decline but, unfortunately, it is really American decline! It will take decades for America to heal from the Trump disease!

#23 | Posted by danni at 2025-11-19 08:26 AM

Biden was filling it faster when he left office.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-18 09:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

The only thing Biden was filling when he left office was his adult diaper.

#24 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-19 08:42 AM

Well isn't that the whole point of changing leadership?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-18 10:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

How about you quit voting fro racist, old boomers who ---- everything up...

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-19 08:43 AM

The daughter-boning------------------- is famous for filling his his depends with Putin's ball snot.

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-19 08:44 AM

The only thing Biden was filling when he left office was his adult diaper.
#24 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I think you'll find Trump fills his at least as fast but doesn't get changed out until the graveyard shift takes over.

#27 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-19 08:46 AM

The only thing Biden was filling when he left office was his adult diaper.
#24 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Every accusation is a confession, with these Adult Diaper Wearers.
Did you do too much cocaine, or did you injure yourself catastrophically with alcohol, diaper boy?

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 09:07 AM

#25 You know, Left Hind Thrids, I find it quite telling that you claim that it was old boomers who ---- everything up.

Considering the fact that you are the genetic by-product of at least one "old boomer," I can certainly understand your point of view, that they ---- everything up.

That's what you see in the mirror each and every morning when you get up.

#29 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 09:22 AM

"you claim that it was old boomers who ---- everything up."

He was raised to blame everything on someone else.
Like he grew up in the white trailer ghetto.
Democrat Hoax!
Trump Didnu Nuffin!

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 09:35 AM

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 09:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

You're the dumbass that claimed the change of leadership was needed to clean this mess up... Stick to your ------- role at the bath house, fat bitch.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-19 10:24 AM

"You're the dumbass that claimed the change of leadership was needed to clean this mess up."

No, ------.
I claimed the reason to change leadership is to change the way things are being done, in any organization.
You are the ------ who said the new leader shouldn't be expected to fix the old leader's mistakes.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 10:26 AM

Stick to your wheelchair, you ------- loser.

If I met you in real life I'd tip you over and laugh.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 10:26 AM

change of leadership was needed to clean this mess up.

#31 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Trump in prison is suddenly back on the table.

The word is that he's swearing vengeance against all those who violated him yesterday on the Epstein thing.

So, yet more reasons to lock his criminal ass away.

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-19 10:28 AM

-Stick to your ------- role at the bath house, fat bitch.

He's been promoted to the assistant the branch manager.....get it right, please.

#35 | Posted by eberly at 2025-11-19 10:31 AM

MAGATS are ------- retarded

#36 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-19 11:32 AM

#25 Regarding my #29 retort to your #25... Thank you for marking it Funny.

It helps the algorithm boost the visibility of said retort, and bu flagging it moves it to the Flagged Comments section where it is bound to get even more views.

You're a real schwachsinnig, Left Hind Thrids.

#37 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 11:53 AM

@#15 ... So it's been an era of epic wins and no republican decline. ...

I don't knw about that "no Republican decline" part.

MAGA has taken over what is left of the Republican Party. The Republican Party is all but non-existent nowadays, it's all MAGA now.

If that is not the decline of the Republican Party, I don't know what is.

Has MAGA become RINO?



#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 12:09 PM

-MAGA has taken over what is left of the Republican Party.

Nobody took anything over.

They just changed names.

Yesterday, they were deplorables.....today, they are MAGA.

Tomorrow? a new name....but same people.

#39 | Posted by eberly at 2025-11-19 12:13 PM

"Nobody took anything over.
They just changed names."

So, Republicans like Trump is who you've always been, deep down inside.
Nothing changed there.
Got it.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 12:14 PM

#39 William F. Buckley had enough sense to kick out the John Birch Society from National Review. Fellow conservatives followed suit, and the JBS was reduced to the dustbin of Republican/conservative thinking.

In 1980, Reagan said (to a meeting of evangelicals) "I know you can't endorse me, but I endorse you."

Around the same time, Barry Goldwater warned, "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

In 1994, the GOP promised a "Contract for America."

In 2011, angry over the passage of the ACA, the "tea party was born." It consisted of Republicans who were concerned about costs, but mostly it was a backlash against a bill that was meant to help Americans.

In 2015, after basking in the Trump's thinly veiled racist attack on Obama's "birth," the MAGA movement was born.

And with it, the acceptance of all that William F. Buckly Jr. rejected, and Goldwater tried to warn against.

The leopard cannot change its spots.

#41 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 12:24 PM

41

well said.

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2025-11-19 12:29 PM

#42 Thank you.

#43 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 12:34 PM

@#41 ... In 2011, angry over the passage of the ACA, the "tea party was born." It consisted of Republicans who were concerned about costs, but mostly it was a backlash against a bill that was meant to help Americans. ...

The Tea Party came into being a few years earlier, but the ACA is what seemed to have catapulted the Tea Party into more widespread acceptance.


#44 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 12:34 PM

'But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise."
#41 | Posted by A_Friend

This is who Republicans have always been.
Republicans endorsed White Christian Nationalism as soon as it became politically expedient.

#45 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 12:39 PM

The only thing Biden was filling when he left office was his adult diaper.

#24 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Yeah biden wears diapers. Just like biden was addicted to spray tan, wore high heels, a girdle, partied with epstein for decades, and cheated at golf all the time.

#46 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 01:15 PM

#41 | POSTED BY A_FRIEND AT 2025-11-19 12:24 PM | REPLY |

I'm not arguing with you but this is like Grover Norquist old. Find another biggie man.

#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-19 06:48 PM

I'm not arguing with you but this is like Grover Norquist old.
#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Grover Norquist is too modern for your Republican Party, modeled after 1933 Germany.

History doesn't repeat, but it often sends the undesirables to camps, as ICE is doing right now.

#48 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-19 06:52 PM

#47 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Thank you for that kind reminder.

#49 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 07:07 PM

#48 Spot-on. Thanks.

#50 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-19 07:09 PM

I'm not arguing with you but this is like Grover Norquist old. Find another biggie man.

#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You're still saying democrats were the party of slavery. Despite democrats being the conservative party at the time. 200 years ago

#51 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 08:12 PM

@#51 ... You're still saying democrats were the party of slavery. Despite democrats being the conservative party at the time. 200 years ago ...

I do not deny the history of the Democratic Party.

But, what I will say is that the Democrats of yore do not seem to exist anymore.

OK, now look at the Republicans of the past couple decades.

The Republicans of old no longer seem to exist either.

So, what has the Republican Party become?

Toadies in the cult of Trump.



#52 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-19 08:23 PM

You're still saying democrats were the party of slavery. Despite democrats being the conservative party at the time. 200 years ago

#51 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2025-11-19 08:12 PM | REPLY |

LMAO. You've got A_Friend asking Paz if he's a "house ni**er or a field ni**er" on another thread that's still up on the front page. Tell me some more BS

#53 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 07:51 AM

*Boaz

#54 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 07:52 AM

If, in fact,Trump is bringing a decline for the GQP then the net result of his leadership will be good for America!

#55 | Posted by danni at 2025-11-20 09:35 AM

The Tea Party came into being a few years earlier, but the ACA is what seemed to have catapulted the Tea Party into more widespread acceptance.

#44 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Who can ever forget that snappy ---------- slogan that predates even the maga maroons lunacy ...

"Keep your government hands off my Medicare, Morans!"

#56 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-20 10:50 AM

You're still saying democrats were the party of slavery. Despite democrats being the conservative party at the time. 200 years ago

#51 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-19 08:12 PM | Reply | Flag

The same Democrats who elected the guy who said this

"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds"

to serve in the US Senate from 1959 - 2010?

#57 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 11:13 AM

#57 If the Democratic Party is the party of racists, then why do Democratic candidates, from city hall to the halls of Congress, always get the vast majority of the votes of people of color?

#58 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-20 11:22 AM

why do Democratic candidates, from city hall to the halls of Congress, always get the vast majority of the votes of people of color?

#58 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-20 11:22 AM | Reply | Flag:

Are you ------- blind? That isn't a bankable demographic for the DNC anymore, and it shows. It's why angry, little. racist, liberals like you get bothered enough about it to ask a black member here it he's a house N****r or a field N****r.

I'm sorry, did you have a comment on the late Senators quote from #57?

#59 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 11:27 AM

Luvsorangeturds voted for the demented------------------- who was taught by his klansman father to hate black folks.

www.nytimes.com

#60 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-20 11:33 AM

Luvsorangeturds voted for the demented------------------- who was taught by his klansman father to hate black folks.

www.nytimes.com

#60 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-20 11:33 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hey raetard, did you have a comment on #57, #59 or just an opportunity to plaster a lying liberal rag tucked behind a paywall?

#61 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 11:47 AM

--------, are you aware that your child-raping idol is as racist as he is bloated?

www.nbcnews.com

#62 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-20 11:49 AM

tucked behind a paywall?

#61 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

And here it is for free.

archive.ph

You are welcome you big whiny crybaby.

#63 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-20 11:57 AM

No takers on #57 and 59? "Hurry change the subject"

IF Trump is guilty of anything, the Biden Administration failed you and the rest of America miserably. So cast your anger where it belongs.

#64 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-20 12:18 PM

No takers on #57 and 59? "Hurry change the subject"

Says the guy trying to change the subject.

The subject of THIS thread is The Trump Era Is One of GOP Decline

Not "What about past democrats?!"

Start your own thread or try and keep up.

#65 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-20 12:28 PM

#53 You're not very good at this. My question to "major" boazo boi was specifically because he was intent on quoting Malcolm X.

But, lying by omission seems to be your way, Left Hind Thirds.

#66 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-20 12:37 PM

#57 #59 The title of this thread (posted by me) is: The Trump Era Is One of GOP Decline

Just what does your #57 and/or #59 have to do with The Trump Era Is One of GOP Decline?

You're not very good at this, Left Hind Thirds.

#67 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-20 12:39 PM

IF Trump is guilty of anything, the Biden Administration failed you and the rest of America miserably. So cast your anger where it belongs.

#64 | Posted by lfthndthrds

First true thing you've said in your life.

Biden could have locked up trump for the 11 counts of felony obstruction from the mueller investigation on day 1 of biden's presidency if that's what he wanted to do.

I'd love to hear your theory on why trump moved gislaine maxwell to a day spa prison?

#68 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-20 01:16 PM

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