Conservatives Heap Blame On Trump After Brutal Tuesday Election Losses

Conservatives are trying everything they can to cope with their embarrassing electoral losses in this week's elections, and a few are actually coming to the realization that Trump is costing the Republicans what would have been easy victories in the past. Conservative writer Erik Erickson seems to have the most rational take, pointing out that there is no cohesion in the Republican Party because the pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions can't seem to figure out what works and, more importantly, where it works. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The Republican Party suffered a string of humiliating defeats in Tuesday's, elections, uh, elections that took place a lot in either swing states or completely red states, where Republicans lost big time on everything from state assembly makeup to initiatives on the ballot. One of those, of course, was Ohio's ballot initiative that basically enshrined abortion rights into the state's constitution. And following these defeats that they suffered in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and elsewhere, Republicans were of course immediately looking at who to point the fingers at. And the finger apparently landed on Donald Trump of all people. And to be honest, I'm kind of shocked that the Republican Party was actually willing to admit that yes, this guy is the problem. One of the people who admitted this was none other than conservative talker and writer Eric Erickson writing on Twitter. Eric Erickson had this to say about Donald Trump's culpability for what happened on Tuesday, quote, the GOP is no longer a national party.

It is a collection of disparate regional parties. In some areas, the party wins by being tied to Trump. In some areas it loses by being tied to Trump. What wins in pro-Trump areas and what wins in anti-Trump areas are incompatible, which means the party's coalition is unstable and unworkable nationally. Nothing is going to get fixed with the GOP because Trump supporters won't accept how radicalizing Trump is to a lot of non-Trump voters. And also because in some places Trump helps the GOP turnout, there's an inability to distinguish where he helps and where he hurts the party. And I have to say that's probably one of the most intelligent things I've ever seen regarding Trump's impact on the party coming from somebody on the right, because it's true. And when you think about it, you know, you look at certain places around the country, obviously you have Republican areas, but Trump's presence actually hurts them.

Other areas, even in conservative areas or swing areas, Trump's presence can help the party. But overall, he appears to be doing more damage than he is helping. And that's the thing that Republicans have to come to terms with, but they're not gonna do it because I'm gonna make an argument here that it's not necessarily Trump that's to blame for all of this. It's Ronna McDaniel. What has the Republican party accomplished since Ronna McDaniel became the chairwoman of the Republican Party? The answer is literally nothing. Literally nothing. Yeah. They won last year's midterm elections. They got

A 10 seat advantage. They were predicting a 70 seat advantage. Folks, Republicans thought they were gonna have a 70 seat advantage after next year's midterms, they got a 10 seat advantage. So that is the only victory that Ronna McDaniel has on her resume, right? Because she became the chairwoman of the Republican Party after the 2016 election. So they lost in 2018. They lost in 2020. They barely won in 2022. They've gotten their butts kicked in special elections that have happened, you know, across the country throughout the months. They got their butts handed to him yesterday. Yes, Donald Trump plays a big role in that. But at the end of the day, Ron and McDaniel's really the one y'all ought to be pointing the fingers at. Look, I love to blame Trump for lots of things.