{"id":1804473,"date":"2023-01-13T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804473"},"modified":"2023-01-13T07:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:58:32","slug":"can-republicans-still-win-national-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-republicans-still-win-national-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Republicans Still Win National Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcan-republicans-still-win-national-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The 2022 midterm elections in Washington were a disaster for Republicans. It was also a historic event. <\/p>\n<p>All of the significant trends favoring GOP candidates were uneasy economic conditions and an unpopular president who seems more at home in a bingo hall. There was also a volatile foreign policy environment and a pool of midterm voters that have consistently favored Republicans. The almost inevitable Republican takeover was not realized, but many of the Senate races were won by Democrats. Some candidates, such Kari Lake, Arizona, won defeat at the hands of certain victory. And then there was President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-abortion-gop-midterms-truth-social-1770675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ventilated<\/a> He was frustrated at pro-lifers who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/oct\/31\/donlad-trump-gets-pro-life-voters-support-begrudgi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fueled<\/a> His 2016 win. Perhaps it is time to ask: Can Republicans still win at national level?<\/p>\n<p>American politics has a history of being cyclical. So, too,\u00a0is this kind of catastrophizing. Some pundits predicted that the Democratic Party would be destroyed after 2004&#8217;s election. However, four years later that party won the White House as well as Congress with a strong showing. This included a filibusterproof Senate supermajority, which enabled passage of Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties are also incompetent at managing government and other tasks, such as fundraising and anger generating. When one gains an edge, such as the Democrats enjoy right now, the hours start pouring. Think about it this way: It\u2019s only a matter of time until the party of drag queen story hour becomes embroiled in a major scandal or otherwise wrecks its credibility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These observations are based on historical experience, and they ignore statistical realities that make it increasingly difficult for conservatives to be successful. For all the left\u2019s heartburn over the Electoral College, it\u2019s a system that isn\u2019t all that friendly to Republicans these days. If we consider Donald Trump a generational anomaly, the Republicans haven\u2019t won under this system since George W. Bush did it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.270towin.com\/2004_Election\/interactive_map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2004<\/a>This was a time in which states like Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia were still comfortably in the Republican column. Bush even won New Mexico, a state the Republicans don\u2019t contest anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s use Trump\u2019s 2016 victory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.270towin.com\/maps\/2016-actual-electoral-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Map<\/a> This is a good starting point. A nearly perfect set of circumstances delivered Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, states that hadn\u2019t voted Republican in decades. This optimistic idea is that it is possible to replicate this. Then, are Arizona and Georgia\u2019s Democratic turns just temporary blips? Unfortunately, there is not enough evidence to support this theory. Pickups of states like Nevada or New Hampshire wouldn\u2019t be shocking and could offset losses in other places, but they aren\u2019t worth many electoral votes. And there is also the Republican Party\u2019s need to maintain control of states like North Carolina and Texas; the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/texas-turning-democrat-white-liberal-voters-moving-states-economy-2020-election-1458363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Migration<\/a> of people from left-wing states to job-rich locales in the American South is no secret, nor are the Democrats\u2019 ambitions in these places.<\/p>\n<p>The key to a Republican victory in the presidential race is a combination of high performance and key holds within the Sun Belt. A candidate like Gov. Ron DeSantis is a candidate that seems to have been genetically engineered to run for president of the United States. His opponent is a boring Biden-Harris ticket under difficult economic conditions. This outcome could even be the result of smart money. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a disastrous 2022 midterm performance, the Republican Party may be poised for a period of prolonged opposition at the national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":1804476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6571,6919,4107,3756,7627],"class_list":["post-1804473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-elections","tag-federalist","tag-national","tag-republicans","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}