AP Voter Poll: How Trump and Republicans Lost

Wednesday, November 04, 2026

An AP postmortem on the election explains the crushing defeat for President Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms: "The polling shows that voters generally saw Trump as being more focused on his own fortune and gold-leafed existence than their needs. ... Meanwhile, despite Republicans' suggestion that voters cared little about Trump making more than $1 billion last year from meme coins and cryptocurrency, most voters saw Trump as obsessed with his own interests."

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They lost by being cowards and pigs.

They lost by not abiding by their oaths to support the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-11-04 08:53 AM | Reply

How?

They promised to lower prices and made them much much much worse.
They promised to end wars and started invading countries, blowing up fishermen and started wars.
They promised to deport the worst criminals and instead murdered americans and deported lawful immigrants.
They promised to lower gas prices and drove them through the roof.
They allowed the corruption and theft of taxpayer money to be off the charts.

Now is the time to start planning the hearings....

Jared and his billion in bribes.
Trump crypto.
Ice private prisons.
Bribe force one.
Collins and her bribes for military contracts.
Ballroom.
The reflecting pool.
Kegsbreath and his purge of women and minorities.
KKKash and his abuse of FBI jets.

All of it.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-11-04 09:11 AM | Reply

Actually... most members of the investor class are obsessed with their own needs. It's that "let your money do the work for you" attitude from the 80s. It's as if the human effort that built their fortunes doesn't matter. If you can't get them for cheap... then you build robots to replace them.

#3 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-11-04 09:26 AM | Reply

My happiness at yesterday's outcome is tempered only by the cynical assumption that if Americans are given affordable gas and groceries again they'll go right back to the idiocy that gave us Trump and MAGA.

This is happening ONLY because voters were too affected on a personal level by this administration's policies.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-11-04 09:29 AM | Reply

Economic disparity always leads to Communism and Socialism.
Always.
Never fails.

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-11-04 09:35 AM | Reply