"Fox News recently published stunning poll results for the Senate race in solidly-Republican Ohio: Democrat Sherrod Brown led GOP incumbent Jon Husted, 53% to 45%.
"In an era of metronomic partisan polarization, that eight-point Democratic margin in Ohio almost defies belief. But an intra-Republican fracture explains it: Only 4% of those aligned with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement backed Brown, but 31% of 'non-MAGA' Republicans crossed party lines to support the Democratic candidate.
"That snapshot reflects an emerging 2026 picture that does not resemble a familiar face-off between evenly-matched Republican and Democratic two parties. Instead, the midterm elections increasingly pit the MAGA minority against the American majority of everyone else.
“'This phenomenon is part of what underlies the Democrats’ overwhelming success in 30-plus special elections'” during Trump 2.0, says Geoff Garin, a top Democratic pollster. And it fuels the party’s growing optimism about capturing not just the House but also the Senate by winning states like Ohio that present-day Democrats routinely lose..." -- John Harwood, at "Zeteo" ($$), on "In the 2026 Midterms, It's MAGA Against the Rest of America." Even if Ohio is an outlier (we don't think it is), the gathering panic on the part of the MAGAt Republicans in trying to seize the election operations in state after state would strongly suggest they, too, know something's going sideways for them. Couldn't happen to a worse bunch of sociopathic fascists.
Screw that Hopium BS. Did nothing for us last time.
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