The Blame Game: Republicans Point Fingers at Each Other for Election Losses

If there is one thing that unites the disparate wings of the Republican Party , it is the idea that some other GOP faction is why the party keeps losing elections.

Just take a look at the Kentucky governor’s race. Trump, abortion, and turnout were certainly factors. But two other Republicans who opposed abortion won statewide by comfortable margins with the same turnout. Trump won Kentucky in 2020 with 62% of the vote, receiving 632,479 more votes than Gov. Andy Beshear got in his successful reelection bid.

Trump attracted some working-class voters to the Republican Party who wouldn't vote for Romney. But he also repelled college-educated suburban voters who were mostly voting GOP through Romney’s 2012 campaign. An obvious path to a national majority is winning back the voters Republicans lost under Trump while retaining the voters they gained. But that is much easier said than done.

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