Last week's election losses for Republicans revealed some trends that could spell trouble for the party in next year's midterms if they are not addressed as the GOP looks to 2026. That is the conclusion of election data expert Ryan Girdusky, host of "The Numbers Game" podcast. Girdusky joined Breitbart News for a post-mortem on the elections, and warned that Republican losses went beyond the big nationally watched races in New York City, Virginia and New Jersey. "In a lot of other states I was paying attention to school board races, city council races, mayors races in places like Kansas, Washington, Minnesota, and Connecticut," said Girdusky "Places that really had no national repercussions, but the turnout was tremendous on the part of Democrats just to say let me stick it to Trump and go vote for a Democrat."
"And Republican turnout was very, very low," he continued. "Even in Mississippi, Republicans lost seats in the state legislature."
At issue for the GOP was a huge drop in turnout from voters who supported President Trump last year. "There is a big question over low propensity voters who voted for Donald Trump in 2024," said Girdusky. "(They voted) in part because they thought we need a change in our country, we don't like especially the way the economy is being run, he changed the economy one time and maybe he can do it again...and so far, he has kind of been unable to."
Girdusky warns that Trump and Republicans must sharpen their economic focus and turn out voters like they did in '24 to counter the wave of anti-Trump enthusiasm on the Democrat side. "There were outside factors that (Republicans) couldn't control, and then there was also just the anger over Donald Trump, which is boiling over (among Democrats)," he told Breitbart. "Which will continue into 2026 for the midterms...they're going to have presidential level turnout next year---Democrats will."
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