Trump’s Weird Rants Are Hurting His Chances to End the Shutdown


Vance’s comment about “a few elections in blue states” ignores the reality of the situation. Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia all saw big wins for Democrats on Tuesday night, and they’re not exactly blue states. And even within those states (and in bluer ones like New York and New Jersey), Democrats won in red districts.
Georgia Democrats made history by winning two statewide elections. civil service commissioner, their first non-federal statewide victories since 2006. In Erie County, Pennsylvania, which I went looking President Trump in 2024, Democrat Christine Vogel won the race for county executive by 24 percentage points. In Virginia’s 66th District, Democrat Nicole Cole beat Bobby Orrock, Republican incumbent for 36 years, the longest-serving GOP delegate in Virginia. And in ruby-red Mississippi, Democrats managed to crack the GOP state Senate. qualified majorityflipping three seats after 13 years of Republican control.
These local victories, combined with Proposition 50 in California, Democratic gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, Trump’s very low approval rating and what could be a significant impact Latino exodus, This should certainly worry Republicans more than Vance in the thoughts he shared. And cutting SNAP benefits and triggering inflation while the president enriches himself and his family is a far cry from “working to make a decent life affordable in this country.”




