Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media outside Air Force Two on November 2, 2026 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. | Tom Brenner/Getty Images Republicans began picking through their party’s post-midterms wreckage Wednesday to ask about — and argue over — how things went so, so wrong in President Donald Trump’s second term. Tuesday’s blue tsunami not only washed out Republicans’ House and Senate majorities, it carried Democrats into office even in deep red strongholds like South Carolina, Kansas, and possibly Mississippi. It seemed to be a decisive thumbs down from the electorate...
Whose fault is the GOP’s cataclysmic defeat? 3 theories are gaining steam on the right.
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