John Solomon

We talked earlier in the show about the fact that Republicans just thought, well, we got a lot of registrations in New Jersey, so everything must be trending our way.

Trump's not on the ballot.

Low propensity voters stay home.

I know some people think that Trump may stick around in 2028, but I think the reality is that Trump's not going to be on the ballot again.

So what do we do when Trump's not on the ballot to get voters out in races like this?

I think, Paul, the story tonight is not so much the overall result because, again, Republicans are in charge of everything.

They're going into states that obviously the Democrats won and control.

So it's an uphill climb from the jump.

But I think what the story tonight is the margins across the board that they won by, the underperformance of the candidates.

And I think what MTG talked about, by the way, you look at some of these local races across the country.

The Republicans losing the two seats in the in the PSC tonight in Georgia.

I think that might be a bigger red flag than maybe some of the top level overall gubernatorial races, which I don't think anyone is overly surprised by.

And again, I think what we're surprised by is they're getting called at 904 and 806.

And these things are just done in the underperformance of the candidates tonight might be the thing that sticks out.

Well, where is the overall vision?

I don't think anyone's necessarily surprised on the overall outcomes, but I think it's the margin, it's the underperformance.

And I think it's just the vision from the Republicans overall, Steve, it's not like we don't have big things that need answers to.

Think about what we have to fight right now.

We have property taxes, we have the moratorium on immigration, we have immunity, we have mandates.

We have the general healthcare vision with the Republicans have absolutely no vision on healthcare whatsoever.