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How MAGA lost the midterms: Failure to acknowledge reality

by Xavier Kelley, opinion contributor - 11/05/26 11:30 AM ET

by Xavier Kelley, opinion contributor - 11/05/26 11:30 AM ET

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All across the nation, Republicans are reeling from a series of losses that can only be described as seismic. Midterm elections have traditionally proven unfavorable for the party occupying the Oval Office, but this election was clearly a referendum on Trumpian populist politics.

In Texas, Republicans lost a Senate seat after Trump primaried a sitting senator who disagreed with him, for the benefit of an official who had, among other things, been rejected by members of his own party. This cleared the way for a Democrat who distorts Scripture to fit his own narrative.

In South Carolina , Republicans lost another Senate seat because nepotism doesn’t serve as a cover for experience.…