{"id":34876,"date":"2025-11-05T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=34876"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:55:39","slug":"republicans-jubilant-over-democrat-sweep-vow-to-use-same-strategy-to-lose-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/republicans-jubilant-over-democrat-sweep-vow-to-use-same-strategy-to-lose-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Jubilant Over Democrat Sweep, Vow To Use Same Strategy To Lose Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211; Jubilant Republicans filled the halls of Congress this morning, popping sparkling champagne and shouting \u201cMission Accomplished!\u201d after Democrats trounced them in yesterday&#8217;s elections across New Jersey, Virginia, New York, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"406\" data-end=\"700\">\u201cThis is exactly the outcome we were hoping for,\u201d said House Speaker Mike Johnson, beaming with enthusiasm. \u201cFrankly, we\u2019ve gotten quite good at losing. It\u2019s the only consistent part of our platform. We know exactly what our conservative constituents want, and by golly we&#8217;re going to do everything in our power not to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"929\">Across the Capitol, both Senate and House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/republicans-propose-grueling-7-day-work-year-schedule-for-congress\/\">Republicans<\/a> held an impromptu celebration, congratulating one another on \u201csticking to the plan\u201d of doing everything they can not to win, bragging about how many vacation days they&#8217;ve taken this year alone and not codifying any of President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive orders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1277\" data-end=\"1523\">The Republican National Committee also praised the losses, calling them \u201ca strategic masterpiece in sustained minority status in an effort to simply fundraise while promising to get the Democrats the next time.\u201d The RNC Chair also announced the launch of a new fundraising campaign titled \u201cHelp Us Lose Again in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2283\" data-end=\"2688\">House Speaker Mike Johnson later confirmed that the GOP would be doubling down on its 2025 playbook for the 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2283\" data-end=\"2688\">\u201cWhy change a losing strategy that\u2019s working perfectly?\u201d he asked rhetorically. \u201cWe plan to focus entirely on issuing strongly worded letters and useless investigations that end up going nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2283\" data-end=\"2688\">Republicans insist that their new \u201cLosing Forward\u201d strategy is rooted in solid political science, claiming voters like the authenticity of Republicans doing what they do best, by just complaining about Democrats while fundraising off of it and when in power do absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211; Jubilant Republicans filled the halls of Congress this morning, popping sparkling champagne and shouting \u201cMission Accomplished!\u201d after Democrats trounced them in yesterday&#8217;s elections across New Jersey, Virginia, New York, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. \u201cThis is exactly the outcome we were hoping for,\u201d said House Speaker Mike Johnson, beaming with enthusiasm. \u201cFrankly, we\u2019ve gotten quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[404,912,1113,590],"class_list":["post-34876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-democrat","tag-election","tag-rated-g","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}