Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer unwittingly made the case for the Democrats winning the midterms so resoundingly.
Blaming messaging and the word “affordability” for their losses was not a winning message before the election and certainly not after the wipeout.
Rep. Emmer’s joined Fox News and was asked by F&F host Brian Kilmeade how Democrats pulled off such a thorough demolition of Republicans. Emmer’s was particularly angry at Van Jones for highlighting the use of Russian bots by Republicans while Democrats use human beings.
“They were humans, not bots, really,” Emmer’s said. “This is the idea that they are the majority message in this country, and they’re not.”
Is he smoking wacky weed? The voting populace begs to differ. At this point in the midterms, the country voted 65,448,509 for Democrats and 49,566,961 for Republicans. That’s almost a 14-point advantage for the left.
EMMER: These guys are great at messaging, and they chose the word affordability because we know it was always going to be about the economy, Brian.
But affordability allows you to pick out trees in the economy.
You can pick out gas prices.
You can pick out housing.
Whatever it is, you can focus on that.
Yes! You got it.
Thanks for understanding why the US voted you MAGA cultists out of office.
Gas prices and housing costs are crippling America. But that’s just two out of many issues.
Overall, Trump’s economy has been an utter failure. “Affordability” would never have taken hold as a meme if it wasn’t true.
“And we didn’t counter so that people were not talking about the fact that poverty is its all-time lowest, that individual income is its all-time highest,” Emmer said.
These are not issues voters believe reflect what’s happening in this country.
Emmer’s problem is that they have no counterargument.
“We’ve got to start talking to the American people over the next two years about what we’re going to do to address those problems that they made the showcase of this election,” he said.
Republicans have had 18 months to address issues that affect American lives, and instead of helping, they’ve made people worse off.
Emmer’s is still blaming Biden for their problems.
EMMER: They caused these problems, and now they’re coming back.
You literally are hiring the arsonists that started the fire.
And we’re going to show the American public that.
This is delusional.
Emmer isn’t very bright, but you already knew that.
Republicans still refuse to talk about why Trump’s policies and leadership have failed, so the GOP will remain a minority party for the foreseeable future and hopefully much longer.