John Solomon

loyal enough?

Are they focused enough?

Are they skilled enough to take the opportunity that's about them in the moment?

If I'm a Republican, I'm very optimistic about the 2026 election.

I haven't voted since I became a journalist, so I don't have any skin in the game other than covering it.

But if you're a Republican, you look at what's about to happen over the horizon.

You potentially, with the right strategy, could get voter ID and citizenship checks.

You probably are going to win the Louisiana gerrymandering case, which will, between the next two elections, return 21 to 24 districts.

back to Republicans.

You may also get a massive victory that cuts off one of the Democrats' biggest advantages if the Mississippi case goes as expected and it's ruled that election day means election day means you can't have ballots coming in four, five, six, seven, eight days later.

Those are monumental changes to the election structure that Democrats have exploited that Republicans can now have on their side.

Now, to get that would be an incredible miracle for the Republicans, particularly in a midterm election.

Then let's throw one other thing on there.

If you start delivering the undelivered parts of the agenda, President Trump has delivered an awful lot, but you got election integrity still pending.

You got accountability for the deep state and the weaponization and the politicization.

And you got to get the budget down.

I mean, we're going to head towards $3 trillion deficit at the current arc we're going at.

You tackle those three things, your base will be highly motivated to come out.

Donald Trump will be on the ticket, even though it's a midterm.

And these changes, these structural changes to elections, which will return them to the way we used to have elections back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, you can be very optimistic as a Republican.