"bring the number of those entering or released into the country to about 4.2 million."
https://www.factcheck.org/2024...

"Mayor Eric Adams raged on Friday that the ongoing surge of migrants into the Big Apple has “destroyed” the city"
https://nypost.com/2023/04/21/...

Your use of "anecdotal" actually represents anything you find politically inconvenient.

Many "America First" idea are actually popular. And describing and promoting them more coherently than Trump would not be much of a challenge.

Not at all. Rubio is probably the most likely candidate at the moment. Vance could be a contended, UNLESS he does a Kamala and says he would have done nothing different than Trump. DeSantis would also be far more popular than Paxton or Ramaswamy. The latter two will be much like Kamala in 2020. Make it onto the debate stage but the earliest rejected by their own party as the primary proceeds.

And that is an example of where Rubio or Vance would need to say "I would have done things differently".

A 'Noem', true. A 'Rubio', not so. A 'Vance', to be determined.

No, a presidential signature or veto override will still be required. It's consensus on a bill or a "do nothing" Cogress.

Nope. 3rd party exchages holding people's wallets were not part of the design.

False. Very clearly.

Nope. It was a protest vote against Trump.
"Despite Democrats’ relative advantage on issues, though, the Democratic Party is not much more popular with voters than the Republicans. Just under half of voters have a “somewhat” or “strongly” favorable view of the Democratic Party, while about 4 in 10 view the GOP positively."
https://apnews.com/article/mid...

Nope. Senator Joe Biden was a moderate, President Joe Biden was not. Telling yourself otherwise is good news for republicans in 2028.

That is also how Biden won. And how democrats won last night. Untrue, too many are just loyal party voters. Its how the extremes take over the respective parties.

Actually the hazard is party loyalty. That is how the unfit get selected as candidates, and get into office. Voters have to learn to vote for candidates not parties. Party disloyalty is the only path to reform.

- Don't get me wrong, I'm quite happy with the end result. But seriously, the GOP has seemed all-in about trying to pretend Trump is invincible, and I'm curious to see how they try to spin it this time - SO MANY of his personally-selected candidates lost!

- Estimates I saw were that Musk spent $400 million this time around - and $126 million just on the Texas Senate race! I'd like to see the Dems put forward some bill to reign that sort of spending in... but I doubt there will be any truly serious attempts to do so, even if the appropriate noises get made.

Democrats living near the US border said otherwise, democrats dealing with migrants in NYC and other areas said otherwise. The photos along the border said otherwise. The numbers said otherwise.

If he hadn't been so spiteful and petty that he actively campaigned against several Republicans he considered insufficiently loyal to himself - e.g. Cornyn, Tillis, Cassidy - there's a pretty good chance the GOP would've held onto the majority. Trump has no one to blame but himself for the Senate going blue... not that he's capable of understanding that.

Polling indicates the top two concerns were

Cost of living 36%
Government corruption 12%

In the end, it's almost always the (perceived) economy that drives elections. Both parties tend to forget that after they're elected... although Trump took that quite a bit further by telling people not to believe their own eyes, ears, and bank account statuses.

Haha, if you somehow think he's "my guy" then you've clearly never read anything I've posted here.

Welcome... to Jurassic Park.

He was insignificant in 2021 too, then Dems mismanaged things and made his message significant again. If they do so again, then in 2028 dems will face a similar message but with a saner and less polarizing candidate delivering it.

He's effectively out, a lame duck. "America First" is not out, and it could have a saner and less polarizing leader in 2028.

When Biden did not deliver, we have a huge voter swing that swept Trump back into office. Now we have had another huge voter swing as Trump did not deliver. If the Dem Congress does not deliver and plays games once again we will probably see yet another huge voter swing in 2028. The Dem party is as hated as Trump, Independents growing in number and becoming more influential than ever. Dems would be fools to think voters have some sort of love for their agenda. Voters have finally learned to punish those who do not deliver, they punished the dem who did not deliver in 2024, and now the republican who did not deliver in 2026.