Were the midterm elections stolen, did too many disgusted Trump voters stay at home, or were the insouciant Republicans just out-organized?
Paul Craig Roberts
Matt Gaetz makes a case that the Texas midterm elections were stolen: https://www.joemygod.com/2026/11/matt-gaetz-claims-democrats-stole-texas-election/
A question is: how did Democrats steal the election from Republicans in a state that has a Republican governor, a Republican majority in the state senate of 19-12, and a Republican majority in the state house of 88-62? As a friend observed: “On day red Texas is there. The next day it is gone.”
Were the Republicans asleep?
Or did the Democrats control enough large Texas cities that they could inflate the vote like they did in the swing states in the 2020 presidential election?
It is not clear that Democrats needed to steal the 2026 midterm elections. The Republicans did not hold Trump to the agenda set out in his campaign, the success of which put the federal government in Republican hands, except, of course, for the federal civil service, a Democrat stronghold. By making a lot of money while in office and covering up the Epstein files, Trump was perceived as corrupt. The Republicans aligned with Israel and war. The Democrats were not held accountable for Russiagate and wrongful prosecutions. The offshored jobs were not brought home. War in the Persian Gulf and data centers at home drove up energy costs and therefore all prices for Americans. Just prior to the midterm elections Trump announced more war as soon as the election was over. This showed too much regard for Israel and too little for Americans.
An alternative explanation to election theft is the lop-sided votes were accounted for by Republicans and independents voting Democrat to show their disappointment in Trump and Republicans.
A capable person should do an honest study. If our government is being stolen from us, we should know it.
Reuters news service reports large shifts in voting among Hispanics, blacks, and those under 30 that explain the election results, shifts that Reuters found in 2,100 counties analyzed by the news service. The Democrats did not have to steal an election that the Republicans handed them on a silver platter. It is likely that by putting Israel ahead of America, Trump has shattered the Republican Party.
Reuters reports that the war on Iran backfired at ballot box, costing Trump and Republicans midterms :
Trump’s unprovoked and illegal war on Iran, which contributed to rising fuel prices and economic pressures on American households, fueled a nationwide Republican defeat, giving Democrats control of Congress. The effort to demonize Abdul El-Sayed as anti-semitic probably helped the Democrats.
The scale of public opposition to the war was evident in post-election surveys, which showed that a majority of American voters rejected the decision to launch the aggression against Iran and that this opposition translated into strong support for Democratic candidates.
According to the AP Voter Poll, which surveyed more than 100,000 voters nationwide, roughly six in ten considered the US decision to go to war with Iran wrong, and most of those voters supported Democratic candidates in their local House races. Conversely, nearly all voters who backed Democratic House candidates viewed the war as the wrong decision.
The Republican defeat extended far beyond traditionally competitive states, exposing a nationwide erosion of support that reached areas Trump had carried comfortably in the 2024 presidential election.
Reuters analysis of results from approximately 2,100 counties found that Republicans lost ground in 99 percent of them, with their vote share falling by an average of nine percentage points compared with Trump’s 2024 performance.
The most striking reversals came in states long considered Republican strongholds. Texas elected Democrat James Talarico to the Senate by more than 10 percentage points, marking the first Democratic Senate victory in the state since 1988.
Kansas elected a Democratic senator for the first time in 94 years. In South Carolina, Democrats also defeated Trump’s hand-picked Senate candidate, despite the president having carried the state by nearly 18 points in 2024.
The shift was particularly pronounced among Hispanic voters, a group that had moved toward Trump in 2024.
Reuters found that across 64 majority-Hispanic counties with Senate races, the Republican share of the vote was 14 percentage points lower than Trump’s share in those areas two years earlier
Young voters also moved decisively away from Republicans. According to the AP Voter Poll, approximately seven in ten voters under 30 supported Democratic candidates in their local House races, compared with a roughly even split between Trump and Kamala Harris among young voters in 2024.
Republicans also lost ground among Black voters, particularly Black men: only about one in ten supported Republican House candidates, down from roughly one in four who voted for Trump in 2024.
On the other hand it is not only Matt Gaetz who sees a stolen election. I have a friend in Pennsylvania, a reformed white liberal journalist whose wife was a Republican candidate for the county council. She was the only candidate who spoke for the public’s opposition to the construction of data centers that are driving up electricity bills of people whose incomes are not rising. Despite her popular stand, her Democrat machine opponent got twice the number of votes. My friend reports that lopsided voting was the pattern throughout Pennsylvania. There are reports of people who spoke no English being bussed in to vote. Observers say they were non-citizens who are no longer required to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. The assumption is that if you show up you are a citizen. This would explain how deep red states went Democrat.
I doubt there will be any investigation. The prosecutions Democrats brought against those who tried to expose the theft of the 2020 presidential election have probably discouraged further investigations, and the presstitutes are happy the Republicans are gone and have zero interest in looking into a possibly stolen election. What we know I think, is that the Democrats are determined to rule and the Republicans have no match for the Democrats’ determination.
These two short videos suggest that there was a “conspiracy” to destroy Republican rule, but that the result was achieved though targeted organization and large numbers of new voter registrations.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2119254886818922904
https://patriots.win/p/1ATodbwdGO/datarepublicans-the-democracy-fi/c