Ted Cruz says the midterms were not a turnout problem: the voters who backed Republicans in 2024 came out angry and voted the other way. Jenny Beth Martin asks Rod Martin and Stacy Washington whether that anger was about the economy, about President Trump, about Iran, or about something Republicans did to themselves. Washington starts by leveling the field: this was not the worst midterm either party has seen in thirty years, and it was not affordability, because gas and eggs cost less than they did under Joe Biden. What changed is that the people who made the phone calls and knocked the doors in 2024 watched a Republican House and Senate do almost nothing to codify the president's agenda, and they punished the party for it at the ballot box.
Martin picks it up from Florida. Voters won on issues all over the country, even in California, where they rejected a wealth tax and passed an amendment banning any future one. They were mad at Republicans, not at Republican policy. Texas Republicans let Democrats run the state House for years and now want to blame the president. Florida started with every statewide office, supermajorities in both chambers, and 20 congressional seats, and ended with all of them. Both of Barack Obama's midterms were worse. So were Bill Clinton's and Ronald Reagan's, and those presidents came out stronger. The president did not lose last week, Martin says. Congressional Republicans did, and the next majority will look a lot more like Tea Party Patriots and a lot less like John Cornyn.
In this clip:
• Ted Cruz: it was not turnout
• Stacy Washington: not the worst midterm, and not affordability
• The voters who knocked the doors watched Congress do nothing
• Rod Martin: we won on issues, even in California
• Mad at Republicans, not Republican policy
• Florida did not lose a single office or seat
• The president did not lose last week
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00:00 — Ted Cruz says it was not turnout
00:38 — Stacy Washington: not the worst midterm, and not affordability
01:39 — The voters who knocked the doors watched Congress do nothing
02:55 — Rod Martin: we won on issues, even in California
03:37 — Mad at Republicans, not Republican policy; Texas
04:40 — Florida did not lose a single office or seat
05:20 — Obama, Clinton, and Reagan had worse midterms
06:15 — The president did not lose last week; a new crop in 2028
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