Emmer, NRCC Start to Rebuild for 2020

[brooklynite]

National Journal:

Emmer, who was just elected to a third term in Minnesota's 6th District, is more upbeat than some of his colleagues. Republicans in the lower chamber have begun a public hand-wringing over the future of the party after an electoral drubbing that handed Democrats dozens of districts in suburban areas that were once Republican strongholds.

The GOP lost 40 seats in all, with casualties from Seattle to San Diego to Miami to Maine, and generally in areas where the president is less popular.

“There’s a narrative that people are trying to build out there that somehow there’s been this shift, this political realignment in the suburbs,” Emmer said. “That’s not true. It isn’t there.”

Emmer's analysis of the midterms pins the blame on the Republican Party at large for failing to win over independent voters with a cohesive message on the booming economy. He stressed that the party’s focus on immigration in the final days repelled moderates, but he disputed attempts to fault the president specifically and pushed back on assumptions that Trump would be a liability in 2020.

No place to go but down...

[peggysue2]

1. Think they should keep on, keeping on

Because as long as the GOP deludes itself about Trumpski and the November elections, the better positioning Democrats will have for 2020.

The Trumpster is the gift that keeps on giving. Unfortunately, the damage the man is wreaking domestically and in foreign policy is significant.

The GOP's willful blindness will be remembered.

My advice to the Republican Party? Keep digging that bottomless hole.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Okay folks,

Emmer will crash and burn. Only got elected do to the Gerrymandering of MN 6.