On today’s somber edition of The Editors, Rich and the other panelists discuss last night’s rough run for the GOP. All of them are rightly upset at Republicans for blowing an election through a combination of poor candidate choices and inadequate messaging. The real problem, though, seems to be Donald Trump. Michael and Charlie, however, disagree about the influence Trump had on the party’s chances, and what it means for the GOP going forward.
As MBD forthrightly states, “So, we were wrong, and the earlier Editors podcast this week will go down in the annals as one of our most misguided. . . . I will say my big mistake comes from the fact that I assumed that the fundamentals were driving the election entirely. The fundamentals being: 10 percent inflation, right-track/wrong-track numbers that show basically 70 percent of the country thinks the country’s in a bad way and going in a wrong direction. A lot of those numbers were confirmed in the exit polling, along with [a] super-low approval rating for Biden.”
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