Meet Bob. He's a 49-year-old blue collar guy in Ohio who voted for Donald Trump three times. His son did everything right, learned to code, and got laid off the same month his old company asked for more H-1Bs. On Tuesday, Bob had no reason left to vote Republican.
Democrats are projected to win 255 to 258 House seats and flipped at least seven Senate seats. The consultants are already calling it a messaging problem. It wasn't. Republicans held the House, the Senate and the White House, ran on America First, and then governed on the donors' issues. Voters noticed the Iran war, the grocery bill, and a party that called their sons basement moochers.
I also answer the question I keep getting: how I can tell you to vote Republican one week and explain why they lost the next. That vote was self-defense. Now the work is taking the party over from the precinct seats up, and I lay out the five things to do, in order.
Read "Vote Like It's Self-Defense": https://www.briannicholsshow.com/blog/vote-like-its-self-defense/
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Meet Bob, the voter the GOP lost
1:04 Why this wasn't a messaging problem
2:29 Sponsor: Oasis of Hope
3:07 The results: 255-258 House seats and 7 Senate flips
4:11 The Iran war, the polls and the ribeye
5:00 Ashley Hinson and the "basement moochers" line
5:24 Priced out of a house and a family
5:48 America First, or never hold power again
5:59 They ran on your issues and governed on the donors'
6:55 Why I still told you to vote Republican
7:48 They told you the plan: pack the court, kill the Electoral College
8:34 Zoomers, you're not the bad guys
9:27 Set the terms or someone sets them for you
10:03 The work now: precinct seats
10:37 Five things to do, in order
12:39 One question: does it make life better here at home?
13:39 Three things you can do this week
14:07 Back to Bob
14:34 Two asks
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