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MAGA radio host freaks out over new Trump crisis

alternet.org · 8h · first reportShare

On Wednesday, a popular MAGA radio host had a social media meltdown over the latest midterm polls, which indicate November will be a disaster for the GOP. According to President Donald Trump loyalist Steve Deace, Republicans are being dragged down by a “political albatross” of their own making. “Yesterday,” posted Deace, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error, if you’re in a +10 district you’re underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006.” In other words, the GOP’s internal polling shows that unless a Republican House member happens to be in a district where Trump won by an exceptionally large margin, they’re losing, and even the big margin might not save them. The 2006 midterms he references were a catastrophe for the GOP, handing Democrats both houses of Congress and a slew of governorships and state legislative roles, ending over a decade of Republican