Politico: GOP Is “Reeling” After Yesterday’s Election

Politico reports:

Republicans emerged from Tuesday’s elections on shaky footing. Over the past 10 weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have worked to hobble the federal government, pummel into submission the country’s most powerful independent institutions and enact a sweeping nationalist agenda with little regard — and often disdain — for political norms and the Constitution itself. And they’ve done so with near-universal support from the GOP in Washington.

Then the voters got the chance to speak. In two deep-red House districts in Florida, Republicans had lower-than-expected margins as they clinched the safe seats vacated by “America First” royalty only after sending in national and state reinforcements, including Trump himself, to drum up support. And in Wisconsin, they suffered a crushing defeat in a record-breakingly expensive Supreme Court race.

Read the full article. The piece goes on to quote Wisconsin and national Republicans who express shock at yesterday’s results while also rushing to claim that it means nothing about Trump’s standing with the voters.