'We're going to have a problem': Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020
Source: Politico
03/16/2026 05:40 AM EDT
President Donald Trump is bringing back 2020. Many Republicans wish he wouldnt.
Conversations with nearly a dozen GOP state and county chairs and strategists reveal a party largely eager to move on from relitigating Trumps election grievances, which theyre worried may detract from an economic message that actually motivates voters. But the president wont let it go, subpoenaing 2020 election records and putting pressure on lawmakers to pass legislation to overhaul voter registration laws.
As Republicans stare down a treacherous midterm landscape, theres a growing view inside the party that focusing on stolen election claims and voter fraud will kneecap them in the general election: That messaging might play well with the MAGA base in the primary, but it could alienate moderates tired of rehashing an election from nearly six years ago.
Im always one to believe you should look forward, not backward, said Charlie Gerow, a Pennsylvania-based GOP strategist and Trump convention delegate who hosted a meeting of fake electors in 2020 at his Harrisburg-based public affairs firm. It would be better if the midterms focused on the recovery of the economy and all the good things the Republican administration and Congress are doing to move the economy forward.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/16/gop-trump-voter-fraud-messaging-midterms-00828317
This is the type of delusional universe these MAGats are living in. The country is MANY MANY MANY times WORSE since January 20, 2025.
Dulcinea
(10,030 posts)Everything is about HIM. Don't they get that by now? Bless their hearts.
slightlv
(7,770 posts)nor eligible to be on a ballot anywhere. He's not going to win or lose... his maga republicans are going to lose big time. That is, IF we can keep him from stealing the election and jerryrigging all the polling places. There's so much trouble he could stir up between now and November, it's really too worrisome to think about living through the months until then.
I'd like to see printed on his tombstone once he's dead and buried... "here lies DJT. He's still prosecuting the 2020 election loss in Hell.
flashman13
(2,356 posts)"all the good things the Republican administration and Congress are doing to move the economy forward.
That could be it.
lonely bird
(2,904 posts)If that guy was delusional.
underpants
(196,209 posts)ffr
(23,375 posts)So, they're ready to move on, just in time for the election... the one they are unable to stop...this time.
(fixed the title).
