The GOP's Losing Strategy

Republicans are making the same mistake Democrats made.

Charlie Brown foreign policy🤦: President Trump told Iran today it’s their “last chance” to sign a deal with the U.S.

• ☑️Yes — as we predicted Friday, Trump once again backed down from his threats of a World War II-like bombing campaign

  • He claimed “it was going to be a massive attack” and it was going to be “the biggest attack since World War II”

  • Good read📰: “Trump gambled on everything on Iran — now he’s the weakest player of all”

  • Embarrassing🤦: Reports say Iran denies talks with the U.S are back on.

  • What I’m thinking💭: The right went NUTS (rightly) over Obama’s redline in Syria — it was a horrible moment – Trump keeps doing it over and over.

• Tonight📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert on Trump’s options for getting out of an impossible situation

  • Food for thought🤔: The only thing Iran had to do under the MOU was mildly behave to get a combined $400 billion, and they didn’t, wouldn’t and couldn’t do that.

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Common sense‼️: Maybe it’s a good thing buffoonery, hypocrisy and beating your wife are no longer shameful in politics, although I have not figured out why that would be.

• 🤷If you need to show photo ID for access to NYC’s socialist city grocery stores, it’s not too much to ask for ID to vote

  • ☑️Scott Jennings with the win:

    

    Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY

    I can’t believe married woman - who often have children - are effectively being barred from these grocery stores. Monsters.

    

    Nick Plumb @PlumbNick

    Mamdani wants to protect tax payer funded grocery store from non-NYC residents… they’ll need an ID card to enter. You can make this up.

    1:37 PM · Aug 3, 2026 · 1.6M Views

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• ❗Those credibly accused of beating their wife and sexually harassing female staffers — yes, these are different people — should NOT be in Congress.

• These are not controversial views — or at least they should not be.

  • But here we are🤦: Trump refused to say a congressman who denies beating his wife should resign.

    • More➕: The congressman’s former father-in-law (a sitting senator) got shamed into issuing a humiliating statement after refusing to cut ties with said congressman.

  • Without a shred of irony, Mayor Zohran Mamdani demanded photo ID to shop at his taxpayer-funded grocery stores.

• Brightspot🔆: Maybe we are ready for a 3rd party — the party of common sense.

  • Bill Maher and James Carville say they are done with the Democrats.

    • We can only hope

    • Watching Joe Manchin’s unintended eulogy for his Democratic Party shows a real opening

  • Tucker Carlson and others say Republicans aren’t “America first” enough.

    • Best case👍: They leave, giving Republicans the ability to move back to the center.

  • Maybe just maybe there is now room for a party of common sense?!?!

• It’s possible👀: Independents (really former Democrats) in Nebraska, Idaho and Montana are doing well in Senate races.

  • Could an independent (former Republican) do well in a deep blue state? We can only hope

Watch tonight📺: Democratic strategist Madeline Summerville and creator and executive producer of “The Circus” on Showtime, Mark McKinnon

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Deafening Silence‼️

Republicans’ strategy for the midterms consists of screaming really loudly about the dangers of socialism and communism.

• Be fair⚖️: They aren’t wrong — Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed are likely to win in their primaries.

  • Maybe Cori Bush too in St. Louis.

  • The thought of Hong as governor and El-Sayed as a senator should scare all Americans — their positions and views are antithetical to American values

  • Some headlines📰:

    • “How Democratic Socialists Are Shaking Up the Midterms”

    • “Amid a democratic socialist surge, the DSA asks itself: What’s next?”

    • “How Democratic Socialists Are Wrestling With Their Next Moves”

Look back🔙: Democrats tried that very same strategy in 2024 against Trump and rightly got trounced.

• Moment‼️: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin got trashed by the right for sounding too “soft” on immigration

  

  Steve Cortes@CortesSteve

  The Sec of DHS right now should be a bad ass! Instead we get @SecMullinDHS equivocating! We get this issue correct…or we get RINSED in November elections…

  2:17 PM · Aug 2, 2026 · 37.5K Views

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• Numbers🔢: DHS has already deported more people so far this year than all of last year

• Be smart🧠: Swashbuckling rhetoric on immigration kills Republicans in swing states and districts

  • Yet, MAGA and America want the “badass” rhetoric.

🤷Americans don’t like Trump and Republicans in the same way they didn’t like Biden and Democrats — those in power feel out of touch, and it’s time to throw the bums out.

Messaging 💬: Today, Trump demanded his party whistle past the midterm graveyard.

• Trump: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been, and why wouldn’t they be with the biggest tax cuts and employment numbers EVER, the biggest outside Investment in America in World history, a totally secure Border, a giant Victory in Venezuela, the Denuclearization of Iran, unparalleled respect and success throughout the World, and much more? Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

  • Reality: The polling for Republicans is AWFUL — there is not a single bright spot

Tonight📺: Bill O’Reilly on whether Republicans are making the same mistakes Democrats did.

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Data Divide➗

🏭Democrats have decided that going after data centers is a winning political argument

• James Talarico: “Data centers are jacking up utility bills across the state of Texas. They are using up our water oftentimes before we even realize they’re being built in our backyards.”

• AOC: “One of the largest donors to Trump is ChatGPT and people who own AI companies, and now they are starting to crack down on everyday Americans who are concerned about data centers being built in their backyard”

• Francesca Hong: “It’s time to press control, alt, delete to put a stop to this AI data center crisis. A full moratorium until we have the new regulations we need to protect our energy costs, our economy, our environment”

Why it matters‼️: By going after these centers, they are crippling us in America’s fight against our No. 1 enemy, China, and doing nothing to protect us against AI.

• 👎They are screwing America

  • Data centers provide jobs

    • A single data center provides 50 -3,000-plus permanent jobs

    • And 400-1.2K construction jobs

  • Brings in tax money that can help pay for roads, public schools, etc.

‼️Being against data centers is like being against Walmart coming to town — hurts the town but is an extraordinarily effective political tool.

• 🤖The real threat of AI is that there is barely any regulation on it.

  • Must read 📰: The New Yorker headlines “The Future, Made in China,” writing:

    • “Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.”

The answer✏️: Build data centers like crazy but force AI companies (and NVIDIA) to put in safeguards, plus work to counter China.

• PS: There are more regulations on vitamin supplements than AI right now.

Watch tonight📺: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam’s congressional district has 300 data centers — maybe he can talk some sense into Democrats?