Carsten-Emil Klein

Don’t forget: die jungen linken Demokraten, die jetzt alle feiern, wären hierzulande bei der Linkspartei. Für Grüne und SPD stellten sich eigentlich ernsthafte Fragen. Bestätigt wird ihr Kurs durch die Midterms jedenfalls nicht.

So sieht’s aus. Von einem generellen Linksrutsch bei den Demokraten kann keine Rede sein. Und den wird es deshalb auch - wenn sie gut beraten sind - zur nächsten Präsidentschaftswahl nicht geben. Die Daten sind hier eindeutig.

Franziska Giffey fordert von den Sozialdemokraten in Berlin, „dass wir eine Grenze ziehen”, wenn „das Verhältnis von möglichen Koalitionspartnern zu Antisemitismus, zu organisierter Kriminalität, zur Polizei, zum Verfassungsschutz nicht geklärt ist”. #maischberger

Paukenschlag in #SachsenAnhalt: Linke-Fraktionschefin Eva von Angern will zur #Ministerpräsidenten-Wahl antreten. Mehr @Volksstimme

Deutsche Grüne wie Banaszak sind echt so unfassbar schamlos. Menschen, die in Deutschland gegen Israels Völkermord demonstrieren, beleidigen und verleumden Leute wie er ständig und aufs Übelste, aber die Wahlerfolge in den USA will er dann für sich reklamieren.

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

Donald Trump Jr. concurring with the Vice President‘s assessment.

Democrats didn’t just win the Senate and Governor’s races in Texas. -We’re likely going to win ALL 17 of Texas’s statewide races. -We also won the Texas House. -We also won the Texas Senate. -We also won all 5 of the U.S. House seats they gerrymandered. This is a bloodbath.

This is not a comment on the politics of the mayor, but on his team's social media skills. This is epic, one of the funniest and most effective reposts I've seen.

Thank you, Georgia.

Die Saar-SPD mit dem bundesweit besten Umfragewert einer Bundesregierungspartei nach der CSU.

We just took back Texas.

Hallo, ich melde mich live aus Texas! Texas ist jetzt tatsächlich blau geworden! Sowohl die Gouverneurswahl als auch die Senatswahl wurden bereits zugunsten der Demokraten entschieden. Auch Kansas steht kurz davor, an die Demokraten zu gehen. Und sowohl North Carolina als auch South Carolina sind inzwischen blau geworden!