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Giaritelli, A., Quarshie, M., & Datoc, C. (2026, November 6). Texas GOP grapples with historic losses as Democrats eye 2028. Washington Examiner. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/4793850/democrats-texas-republicans-2028/

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Washington Examiner · collected 2026-11-06 · by Anna Giaritelli, Mabinty Quarshie, Christian Datoc

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Anna Giaritelli
31 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 Texas Republicans are divided over whether Democrats’ historic sweep of statewide offices is the beginning of a political realignment or a temporary backlash against President Donald Trump, with some warning that the losses could put the longtime Republican stronghold in play in the 2028 presidential election.
🔮 “If at times these last two years, amidst the ceaseless onslaught of brutality and indecency, you doubted whether our republic would survive, let tonight’s results give you courage that the first light of God is on the horizon,” Ossoff said.
🔮 Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, beat billionaire Republican businessman Rick Jackson in a close race for Georgia governor, marking the first time in more than three decades that a Democrat has won the state’s highest office and making Bottoms the first black woman governor in American history.
🔮 Similar to other districts across the state represented by Democrats, Florida Republicans targeted this one when they redrew the congressional map in May to favor a Republican candidate.
🔮 Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) survived a challenge from Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) in the midterm election on Tuesday and was elected to a second term, in a win that could help Democrats on their road to a Senate majority and potentially pave the way for a 2028 presidential bid.
🔮 Former President Bill Clinton offered an eleventh-hour endorsement on Monday of Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor who is running in Georgia’s competitive gubernatorial race against Republican businessman Rick Jackson to replace term-limited Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).
🔮 The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has insisted that the Trump administration’s plans to add border wall infrastructure across the Big Bend region of Texas will not bend despite pushback from local communities and even some Republicans.
🔮 The continuation of temporary protected status for the two countries also costs federal immigration authorities the chance to arrest and deport more than 105,000 illegal immigrants who would have lost deportation protection had the program been canceled.
🔮 Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) introduced a bill on Tuesday, just weeks ahead of the midterm election, that would go considerably further than socialists’ calls to get rid of DHS agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement but keep the rest of the department.
🔮 EXCLUSIVE — Leaked government data set to be publicly released in the coming weeks show the number of illegal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol for attempting to enter the country illegally from Mexico declined by more than 2 million in President Donald Trump’s first full fiscal year in office compared to his predecessor’s year one.
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Mabinty Quarshie
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🔮 Anti-abortion advocates worry that President Donald Trump may be pushed by the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to back down on anti-abortion priorities.
🔮 Texas Republicans are divided over whether Democrats’ historic sweep of statewide offices is the beginning of a political realignment or a temporary backlash against President Donald Trump, with some warning that the losses could put the longtime Republican stronghold in play in the 2028 presidential election.
🔮 Democrats may win multiple House races this cycle without spending a cent on TV advertising.
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🔮 President Donald Trump said he does not know for sure whether Vice President JD Vance will run for president in 2028, mere hours after Vance posted a lengthy social media post distancing himself from the Iran war.
🔮 Democrats will have at least 54 Senate seats and at least 228 House seats, effectively hampering the last two years of the Trump administration.
2026-11-04 · assertive framing · Vance blames Iran war for GOP midterm blowout
🔮 The dominant romp has some Republicans worried that Democrats could remain in control of the upper chamber beyond the 2028 presidential election and potentially as long as 2032.
🔮 Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) lost her bid for a full term to Democratic opponent Dr. Annie Andrews, a stunning upset to hand Democrats a crucial seat in their quest to flip the upper chamber.
2026-11-04 · assertive framing · Annie Andrews upsets Darline Graham in South Carolina
🔮 The Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), also stopped advertising in the state as Democrats became more confident that Cooper would win.
2026-11-04 · assertive framing · Roy Cooper wins North Carolina Senate race
🔮 President Donald Trump will hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas over the last weekend before the midterm elections after the events were canceled just one day earlier, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
🔮 Vance, meanwhile, is developing a style built around economic populism, cultural conservatism, and his working-class roots, offering an early glimpse of how he might seek to carry Trump’s political movement into the 2028 presidential election.
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Christian Datoc
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🔮 Texas Republicans are divided over whether Democrats’ historic sweep of statewide offices is the beginning of a political realignment or a temporary backlash against President Donald Trump, with some warning that the losses could put the longtime Republican stronghold in play in the 2028 presidential election.
🔮 I think it would destroy — I think it would destroy the Democrat Party if they did that,” he said to the Washington Examiner when asked if he was at all concerned about impeachment proceedings.
🔮 Republicans were so punch-drunk Tuesday night that they couldn’t even get off the mat to agree on who to blame for their electoral bloodbath.
🔮 The race itself was viewed as one of the tightest contests of the cycle, and a potential forecast for the 2028 presidential election.
🔮 “I am happy to say I will stand up to my party when I believe in something.”
🔮 Recommended Stories Democrats are widely projected to pick up seats in the House but still need to flip at least four seats and defend their existing holdings to take the majority in the upper chamber.
🔮 “This was done at a News Conference, and even the Media was aghast that Lieu would have lied like that.
🔮 Republicans may see a slight 2026 turnout boost not from candidates or President Donald Trump’s breakneck campaign schedule, but from specific statewide measures that will appear on ballots come Election Day.
🔮 Vance, meanwhile, is developing a style built around economic populism, cultural conservatism, and his working-class roots, offering an early glimpse of how he might seek to carry Trump’s political movement into the 2028 presidential election.
🔮 Control of the U.S. Senate may be decided in 2026 by a handful of candidates who genuinely have no hope of winning their own races.
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Democrats rode voter frustration over the cost of living, Trump’s tariffs, and the Iran war to victories across the Lone Star State on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of Republican dominance in statewide elections.
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🔮 Texas Republicans are divided over whether Democrats’ historic sweep of statewide offices is the beginning of a political realignment or a temporary backlash against President Donald Trump, with some warning that the losses could put the longtime Republican stronghold in play in the 2028 presidential election.
2026-11-06 · Washington Examiner
Texas GOP grapples with historic losses as Democrats eye 2028 · mixed framing

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Texas Republicans are divided over whether Democrats’ historic sweep of statewide offices is the beginning of a political realignment or a temporary backlash against President Donald Trump, with some warning that the losses could put the longtime Republican stronghold in play in the 2028 presidential election. uncertain
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Democrats rode voter frustration over the cost of living, Trump’s tariffs, and the Iran war to victories across the Lone Star State on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of Republican dominance in statewide elections. asserted
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