Republicans can win the midterms if they just stop underselling success

Republicans caput into the 2026 midterms with a uncommon advantage: a factual grounds of accomplishments to tally connected powered by President Donald Trump’s second-term successes.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has projected a applicable midterm strategy reminiscent of his 1994 "Contract with America" that urges Republicans to tally hard connected their winning record.

That grounds includes specified wins arsenic the Working Families Tax Cut, which has already brought affirmative effects to the economy. The "Big Beautiful Bill" extended the 2017 taxation cuts, ended taxes connected tips and overtime, ended taxes connected Social Security for astir seniors, expanded the kid taxation credits and childcare taxation credits. It besides permitted businesses to constitute disconnected large investments, made imperishable a 20% small-business taxation deduction, loosened restrictions connected lipid and state lease sales, expanded Workforce Pell grants, provided concern accounts for children and expanded entree to zero-deductible telehealth.

Remarkably, not a azygous Democrat voted successful favour of this powerhouse legislation.

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Memorial Day ceremonial astatine Arlington National Cemetery successful Arlington, Va., connected May 25, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Republicans should beryllium shouting these accomplishments from the rooftops.

Compare that to the Democrats, whose much-delayed, much-hyped, past much-feared "autopsy" of what went incorrect successful 2024 yet deed the press. Sadly, it near retired immoderate fruitful valuation of the existent reasons for their nonaccomplishment — the failed policies of the Biden medication and the promises of then-Vice President Kamala Harris to enact adjacent worse ones.

In fact, Democrats lone look consenting to treble down connected their brainsick ideas, moving further distant from the American mainstream to clasp their activistic base. Their candidates reason instrumentality enforcement and borderline security. Their candidates attraction much astir biologic men pretending to beryllium women than existent women. They tract a campaigner who had a Nazi SS tattoo, and different who called for the imprisonment of "American Zionists" and spouted different antisemitic phrases.

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Democrat candidates attraction much astir amerciable aliens than American citizens, epitomized by the information that not a azygous Democrat stood during the president’s State of the Union code erstwhile asked if they enactment American citizens implicit amerciable immigrants. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries thinks continued radical part is the mode to go, asking athletes to retreat oregon boycott Southern universities, adjacent though the champion options for them mightiness beryllium universities similar Alabama, Georgia oregon Auburn.

Harris — possibly the closest happening to a enactment person they’ve got — isn’t doing the Democrats immoderate favors either. Her caller telephone for a "no atrocious thought brainstorm" focused connected thing but unconstitutional tube dreams.

Harris and different salient Democrats openly propulsion to fundamentally rewrite the rules of American democracy. If they had their druthers, they’d abolish the Electoral College, make multi-member legislature districts and instantly battalion the Supreme Court. These positions are nary longer fringe; they are the mainstream of today’s Democratic Party.

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Marc Elias, the Democrats’ redistricting strategist, has gone truthful acold to arsenic to connote that the full authorities authorities of Virginia should beryllium thrown retired and reconstituted aft the Virginia Democrats’ redistricting referendum was deemed unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court. Talk astir a sore loser.

The Democrats simply volition not larn from their mistakes. Still, Republicans aren’t guaranteed a midterm triumph and, contempt the proven occurrence of their agenda, there’s much enactment to beryllium done to person voters that Trump and Republicans are the squad unlocking prosperity for Americans.

In fact, Democrats lone look consenting to treble down connected their brainsick ideas, moving further distant from the American mainstream to clasp their activistic base.

For example, though ostentation has mostly been tamed by the Trump administration, it’s inactive nagging capable to mention. High state prices besides stay a tangible symptom constituent for galore voters. Republicans should marque the lawsuit that their vigor policies person already generated implicit $4 cardinal successful caller lease revenues and home vigor production. These policies — arsenic good arsenic a astute solution to the Iran warfare — are the surest way to lasting alleviation astatine the pump.

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Another "must do" for Republicans is to guarantee the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement’s successes are getting done to moms. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has made important advancement getting America connected the way to amended health. Under his leadership, artificial nutrient dyes known to incorporate carcinogens person been eliminated.

Vaccines are being reexamined for existent efficacy and requirements are being relaxed to springiness families much choices for their children. The "Eat Real Food" run encourages families to determination distant from the ultra-processed foods filled with unpronounceable, unhealthy chemicals and toward real, nourishing full foods.

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Women attraction astir their families’ wellness and are seeing affirmative changes connected market store shelves and successful the doctor’s office, and it’s President Trump and Republicans who’ve empowered the Make America Healthy Again transformation. In 2026, the contented of wellness should beryllium conscionable arsenic important connected the run way arsenic the economy.

The midterms, similar the 2024 election, volition pit mean radical with mean ideas against crazy. The 2026 representation is receptive to Republican ideas, and Republicans person a fashionable and winning record. Now they request to go their ain champion cheerleaders and marque definite each elector knows it.