What’s happening in #Pennsylvania# is absolute trash! Totally #rigged# I tell you! Dems are not winning! I know this because I shove Vicks Vapor Sticks up my nose until I touch my smooth brain and I eat chalk! Dems are trying to #steal# it! #Trump2024# #Notreally# #fuckTrump#

🚨 BREAKING: Florida Governor-elect Byron Donalds says the GOP Congress should've passed the SAVE America Act, codified more mass popular Trump 2024 policies into law, and that voters were furious with gas prices "We have a LOT OF REPUBLICANS who did not vote or voted for Democrats!" "Gas prices are a MAJOR problem. People looked at the price of gas, diesel, that boiled over. The Senate...not passing the SAVE America Act, some of the key policies done like Trump's border security packages and codifying that into law. That frustrated Republicans." Donalds is in the lame duck Congress and says he will be bringing this up before leaving "We want to talk to all of the people of Florida...we are going to make Florida MORE AFFORDABLE." @ByronDonalds is going full repair and win mode. He just became the most consequential GOP governor in America. TIME FOR FLORIDA TO STACK MAJOR WINS, same with Trump! ☀️ 2028 is coming.

Markets are still treating “Trump 2028” like a pure meme.😯 We’re not convinced. In #markets#, the signal often hits the price before the legal picture settles. What’s your number: long or short the chaos? Drop the odds below.👇 #Trump# #Trump2028# #AliceAI#

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

“The Federal Government cannot continue to spend more money than it takes in.” - Jimmy Carter (1978) “For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future.” - Ronald Reagan (1981) “We must bring the Federal budget deficit under control.” - George H.W. Bush (1989) “We must put our fiscal house in order.” - Bill Clinton (1993) “We can pay down a large portion of the national debt.” - George W. Bush (2001) “Families across the country are tightening their belts … the federal government should do the same.” - Barack Obama (2010) “We will start to balance our budget and pay down our debt.” - Donald Trump (2016) “My plan will reduce the deficit.” - Joe Biden (2022) “We will balance the federal budget.” - Donald Trump (2024)