“Trump is finished”
After the Republicans lost the House special election in New York this week, Donald Trump threw a fit and yelled “I WANT TO BE LOVED!” Trump’s Republican Party lost the race by about eight points, even though the demographic said that it should have been a very tight race.
It was a reminder that moderate voters in moderate districts now see Trump as the de facto candidate in every election, and they’re rejecting him and his party in overwhelming fashion.
Former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci, who has now spent years firmly in the anti-Trump category, had this to say after the Democrats won the special election: “Suozzi’s victory is a tell for Biden. Trump is finished. He has lost the suburbs.”
Scaramucci is correct. Donald Trump and his Republican Party can’t win with the moderate voters in the suburbs. They can win in red states and in far right House races, where moderate voters don’t come into play. But in a swing race or swing state, where voters toward the middle tend to make the difference, the moderate Democratic-leaning voters are turning out to vote Democrat in large numbers, and the moderate Republican-leaning voters are either voting Democrat or staying home.
Tuesday’s election was the latest reminder that Donald Trump has no political future, and the Republican Party has no future in mainstream elections as long as it remains married to Trump. If the Republicans really want to nominate a senile, convicted, and toxically unpopular Trump at this summer’s convention, so be it.
