Republican drops BRUTAL announcement for his OWN party

Some historically bad news for the. Republican Party. Republican Congressman. Sam Graves from Missouri has become the. 36th Republican to announce that he. wouldn't be running for re-election. According to ABC News, in fact, more. Republicans are retiring ahead of these. midterms than at any point in nearly a. century, according to an ABC News tally. of retirement announcements and review. of historical data since 1930 compiled. by the Brookings Institution. For. comparison, in the 2018 midterm cycle, 34 Republicans chose not to run for. re-election in a cycle that resulted in. Democrat flipping 40 seats, the biggest.

midterm victory in modern American. history. The Republican retirements are. greater right now in 2026 than even that. cycle in 2018. And frankly, you don't. need to be a political scientist to. understand why. All you have to do is. take a look at a few recent elections. For example, just days ago, Democrat. Emily Gregory flipped a Florida State. House seat in the district that includes. Mar-a-Lago, meaning Trump's Florida. residence is now represented by a. Democratic legislator. Notably, this is. a district that Trump won by 11 points.

in 2024 and in Democratic hands by a 2. and 1/2 point margin now, meaning this. is a more than 13-point swing to the. left, mirroring so many other elections. that have taken place this year. Also, that same night, another Democrat, Brian. Nathan, flipped uh State Senate District. 14, a district that Trump won by seven. points in 2024, just a year ago, by half. a point now. And perhaps most worrisome. for the GOP, take a look at this. analysis. Both of these districts have a. pretty massive Republican voter. registration advantage. So, either the.

Republican turnout is so depressed and. Democratic turnout is so high that they. are squandering 10-point advantages to. Democratic voters or we're seeing. defections from those very Republican. voters to the left. And when massive. numbers of Republican voters are. defecting to vote for Democrats, not. exactly a winning formula for the GOP. Or how about Texas, where Democrat. Taylor Remmel flipped a seat in the. Texas State Senate's 9th District, a. seat that went for Trump by a staggering. 17 points in 2024 and went for the. Republican candidate by 20 points in.

2022. In other words, not a purple seat, but a ruby red safe seat that has been. Republican control since 1991, which is. now blue. And of course, we all remember. the November general election a few. months back where Democrats dominated. They won the New Jersey and Virginia. gubernatorial races by double digits. They flipped their first non-federal. statewide offices in Georgia in nearly. two decades. They passed a massive. redistricting ballot measure here in. California where I am despite early. doubts, and they did it by a two-thirds.

margin. They retained the state Supreme. Court majority in Pennsylvania, another. state Trump won in 2024. In total, according to CNN, Democrats. over-performed by double digits in every. single special election for the House. held in 2025. Every single one. In fact, 2025 special elections account for five. of Democrats' 15 biggest. over-performances since Trump first. became president in 2017 across more. than three dozen special elections. Now, in terms of why Democrats are cleaning. up in special elections and general.

elections alike, even in deep red. districts and states, it's because. voters are waking up to the bill of. goods that they've been sold. Remember, Trump ran on a few central promises. Affordability, cheap gas, no foreign. wars. And guess what happened? The exact. opposite on all counts. Grocery prices. have risen since Trump took office in. January. Consumer prices right now. overall are up during Trump's second. term. Inflation's expected to rise. beyond 5%, which to be clear, is nearly. double what it was when Biden left.

office. None of which will stop Trump. from lying about it, but what Democrats. learned in 2024 was a lesson that Donald. Trump is learning right now. You can try. to convince people not to believe their. own lying eyes, but grocery bills, utility bills, and expenses don't lie, and they are all more expensive thanks. to Trump. And then of course, there's. the issue of gas prices. Thanks to. Trump's own misguided war, Americans are. now feeling those high prices at the. pump. And if you think that they're not. noticing, think again. >> What are we really doing there besides. raising our prices? Make America great.

again. Make America We're tearing. America apart right now. And it's it's sad cuz it's the working. class people that are suffering the. most. >> At least once every day. if I'm on E, it's about 207. every day right now. Uh. yeah, pretty crazy. I went from 140 a. day to 207 a day. >> And finally, Trump's big promise of no. new wars, that he's the peace candidate. After all, remember this? >> I'm not going to start a war. I'm going. to stop wars.

No more wars, no more disruptions. We. will have prosperity and we will have. peace. Under Trump, we will have no more. wars, no more disruptions, and we will. have prosperity and peace for all. I am. the candidate of peace. I am peace. >> Yeah, well, now that guy has decided. that what we really need is a new war in. the Middle East with no plan, no. objective, and more than a dozen dead. Americans and counting. Again, people. know when they've been conned and. they're not shy about broadcasting as.

much. >> You voted for President Trump in the. last election. He promised to bring down. prices. What do you make of that. campaign promise? >> [snorts]. >> He did vote. He said he'd have gas under. $3 and now it's right at five. And I. mean, honestly, it's something that he. stole from somewhere. And now we're at what? $5 a gallon? He's saying about for our safety, our. safety. Leave somebody alone, they won't. bother you. >> He said that he wanted He wants to make. Venezuela the 51st state.

Do you want to see Venezuela as the 51st. state of the United States of America? >> No, each country should be its own. country. I don't want to see Canada the. 51st country state of the United States. either. He's also said that. And and I'm not going to agree with with. those stands. >> I feel like why not go door-to-door and. help them get through the process of. becoming American citizen instead of. just throwing them back. And then you're. getting you're grabbing wrong people, grabbing innocent people, you're killing. innocent people. It's not righteous.

It's obviously not right. >> But regardless of who's in office, if. they make promises, they better they. better keep them and. you know, follow through on them because. they A lot of people forget that the. government their power comes from us as. a people. And when we have been, you. know, infringed upon, we've been lied to. bold-faced, we get upset. >> So Trump can lie until he's blue in the. face. He can pretend that we were at. imminent risk from Iran. He can claim. that surging gas prices are a small. price to pay or a reflection of our.

patriotism. He can claim that. affordability is a Democrat hoax or a. Democrat scam. People know the truth. They know what they pay at the grocery. store. They know what they pay at the. pump. They know what their rent costs or. their mortgage costs. They know whether. they can afford health care or child. care. And they are tired, sick and tired. of being gaslit by a president who lives. in a gold-plated penthouse and golfs at. his own resorts while they're scraping. by. And here's the other thing. Trump. isn't just hurting Americans right now. financially. He's also enriching himself.

in the process. To add fuel to that. fire, while families are spending an. extra $200 per month just to get by. thanks to his tariffs, Donald Trump is. showering himself in gold and crypto, profiting off the presidency, doubled. his own net worth, using his office to. line pockets while ordinary Americans. suffer. And voters are noticing. So. while the retirements and the. resignations for the Republicans are. already historic, I would probably. expect more because Trump has made it. next to impossible for these Republicans. to win as we head toward midterms. And.

frankly, these Republicans haven't done. themselves any favors either with their. collective fear of upsetting the god. king. A party of either despots or. cowards. Real surprise that these people. aren't capturing the support of the. electorate. >> [music]. >> Before you go, I'm very excited to. announce that I've written a new book. titled The Day After: How to wield power. in a post-Trump world. The book explores. what is, in my opinion, the single most. important theme that we're dealing with. in politics today and moving forward:

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