In the midterms, what is the GOP going to run on?

[BabyBoomer50s]

It just hit me....

The GOP platform:

1) it is ok to kill a black man if you feel threatened.

2) It is OK to kill a child if you feel threatened.

3) It is OK to overthrow an election if you feel threatened.

Did I miss any?

Nope. You did a terrific job of explaining why your party will be defeated by the GOP in 265 days. You guys are out of touch with your own party, the party you oppose, and most importantly the voters who will be sending your elected representatives home.

 

[ll74]

The right has been running on the party policy of "not them" for over a decade now.

Not going to change.

 

[ll74]

When blacks were given equal rights from the civil rights legislation passed between 1964 to 1968, and when the War in Poverty made welfare benefits more generous and easier to qualify for, white racial moderates thought they were buying racial peace.When they got instead were five years of black ghetto rioting, and more enduring increases in black social pathology, they felt betrayed, and began voting Republican.

Look, racism.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The right has been running on the party policy of "not them" for over a decade now.

Not going to change.

In recent years, border control, domestic petroleum & natural gas production, individual and corporate tax reform, defense spending, and federal judiciary appointments have been winning issues for the GOP. In the current cycle, parental voice in schools, lifting Covid restrictions, slowing inflation, domestic petroleum and natural gas production, border control, defense, and yes, snuffing out any remaining remnants of the Biden agenda will be in play.

 

[Misshotndeep]

My answer is all fours!

 

[ishtat]

The GOP will run on "not being the D's." Their major problem will be getting their Trumpster voters to vote at all. Turnout will be way down - for D's as well.

 

[JohnnySavage]

We have some heated local races. There aren't any Democrats here, so the primary is the important election.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The GOP will run on "not being the D's." Their major problem will be getting their Trumpster voters to vote at all. Turnout will be way down - for D's as well.

Check the polls. Americans are not happy with the Democrat party or the Democrat president. Inflation, Covid restrictions, crime, the border, gas prices, parental rights, supply chain…Dems are losing on a litany of issues. The GOP enjoys a significant favorability advantage. Of course the GOP will hammer Dems. They already are.

 

[Paul_Chance]

The party that is out of power always has a certain advantage in that national attention is focused on the short-comings of the party in power. A certain percentage of voters are "immediate" voters and don't have any long term memory. There is also a smaller percentage of voters that are "vote against whose ever in power". Swing both of them and you can swing enough of an election, given that the difference between the two major parties is only in the single digits.