11.7.26 Seth Grossman WPG Radio. In most team sports, they blame the coach when the team keeps losing. Was it the war, or Trump’s handling of the war?

All of these Atlantic CountyRepublicans lost, along with many others. Some were well known, others were not. Most were hard working, although some were not. Most of their Democratic Party opponents were unknown. But it didn't matter. All of these Republican candidates lost. Most lost badly. All of their Democratic Party opponents won. Jeff Van Drew lost re-election to the House of Representatives, although his race was very close. Joe Giralo, the Republican County Clerk lost. Tokyo Joe O'Donoghue is the popular and very well-known Sheriff of Atlantic County. He lost. County Commissioner (Freeholder) John Risley has been a popular vote-getter for a long time. He won re-election in 2020, a very tough year for Republicans. He was defeated, along with his running mates June Byrnes and Andrew Parker. The Republicans running for city council in Egg Harbor City and Somers Point lost. The Republicans running for Township Committee in Egg Harbor Township and Hamilton Township, that is Mays Landing, lost. I believe the only - places where Republicans hung on by their fingernails - were in Ocean County and Cape May County, and I believe on at-large council seat in Absecon. So, what happened? You can get a good idea by looking at the posts on our Liberty and Prosperity Facebook page. Click here for link to Liberty and Prosperity Facebook Page. Some are saying, oh, yeah, the Democrats cheated again. Just like in 2020. They're making the same old arguments, and still without any evidence. Some are saying that the voters are stupid. They just did not understand all of the accomplishments of President Trump and the great job Republicans are doing. There are posts on our Facebook page that say, its the fault of all of those RINOs, R.I.N.O's, those Republicans In Name Only who didn't go along with Trump's agenda and who were roadblocks, and that's why people were angry. And then, of course, there are those who say, the, the war in Iran - and the high gas prices hurt the Republican Party. And, you know, there are anti Semites, anti Zionists, and anti-Israel folks who take that a step further and say, well, - Trump got influenced by those Jews in Israel, and he put Israel ahead of America, - and that's why the American people voted, - against him. Those are some of the opinions out there. And many are posted on the Liberty and Prosperity Facebook page. And of course I posted some of my opinions there, and I'd like to share them with you. The most obvious point that I think of is that politics is a team sport, just like football, baseball, or basketball. And in all of these team sports, when a team keeps losing games, - you start saying, well, maybe the - the coach, the head coach, - or the general manager is responsible. That means you need to get rid of the old losing coach or manager and get a better one. On talk radio programs like this, I hear people saying that about the Phillies and the Eagles when they start losing games. They say you gotta get a new coach. You gotta get a new managers. That's what I hear from callers to radio programs like this when they are talking about sports. However, when it comes to politics, and elections like this, those same people who talk about replacing coaches and managers in professional sports refuse to even suggest that we need to replace the manager or coach of a political party when that party keeps losing elections. Nobody seems to be saying that the Republican Party is losing because it has a bad coach, and if the Republican Party wants t0o start winning games or elections again, it needs to get a new coach or manager. And of course, Trump is the coach or manager of the Republican Party. And Trump may have great ideas, and great policies, but if you look at politics like a team sport, you have to say that Trump has been a horrible coach. He just can't put together a winning team. - And when you have a sport like politics where you can't get anything done unless your team wins games, that is elections you need to get a better coach. So what is it that Trump did or did not do that caused such a disaster for Republicans, not just Republicans running for election to Congress, but to every Republican running for Sheriff, County Clerk, City Council or Township Committee? o or or what - did he not do - that, - that caused such a disaster, not just for Republicans running for the U.S. Senate or the House in Washington, but for every Republican running for township committee in Egg Harbor Township, running for township committee in Mays Landing, running for city council in Somers Point. What did Trump do that hurt all these candidates? To me, it was pretty obvious. Chris, let's play two tapes of President Trump speaking to that special Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, last September. That was a special convention that Trump deliberately set up. It was a convention Republicans never had before. Trump and all the people close to Trump said that the best way for Republicans to win the election was to pretend that Trump was on the ballot in every election, and that every vote for every Republican was a vote for Trump. And, of course, Trump also added that if Republicans won a majority in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, he would pay $5,000 to each adult U.S. citizen, something that would cost the U.S. treasury a trillion dollars. And if - if, Chris could do... Can we play that, - tape? I just wanna play two tapes of - Trump, - from that, - I guess it - was a special convention that you never had - before, a midterm convention - that Trump called - in, - Dallas, Texas, September ninth and tenth - to kick off the campaign. And he thought - that by doing what he did with this - convention - in making Trump - and all the people close to Trump Trump - the key issue of every election campaign in - the country, - he thought this was gonna help. Saying number - one, pretend that he's on the ballot. - And number two, that if, - voters - elect the majority - Republican - House of Representatives and Senate, - he promised - he will pay $5,000 - to every adult, - citizen of The United States, something that would - cost a trillion - dollars. https://youtu.be/kg4neE2V75s?si=a3q1euy6Gu9AJ68t https://youtu.be/q4NphZBfmnE?si=-qshWCec9zbrRcIY And of course, - when I when I heard this last September, I was just cringing, because I could see where this was going. Trump, for a whole lot of reasons was very, very unpopular. Roughly 35% to 40% of voters approved of the job Trump was doing, and 60% to 65% did not. Most of them strongly disapproved. So why would you tell voters to pretend that every vote for every Republican in the country was a vote for Trump? Now of course, the mainstream media, which of course supports Democrats, picked up on this right away. In the past, they did everything they could to ignore Trump. They did not cover his rallies. They did not cover his speeches. But now, everything was different. The mainstream news networks made every remark Trump made national headline news every day. Trump could be speaking at a high school in South Dakota, and every TV news network would make it national headline news. And all of Trump's careless remarks became national headline TV news every day. Trump says he's thinking about running for a third term--headline news. Trump says he's going to build a triumphal arch--headline news. Trump declared that Lake Ontario will now be known as Lake America, and he's going to get Google Maps to make the change--headline news. Renaming the Kennedy Performing Arts Center after Trump--headline news. Trump said he wanted to rename the Strait of Hormuz into the Trump Strait. Trump later said it was a joke but that became national headline news. Every time Trump did this, I just saw all the hard work done by good local Republicans going down the drain. I saw Jeff Van Drew - losing votes, I saw John Risley losing votes, Joe Giralo losing votes, and Tokyo Joe O'Donoghue losing votes. And there was absolutely nothing they could do about it. Because if they openly questioned Trump in any way, they would lose even more votes. And the Democrats took advantage of this. In all of their ads and literature, Democrats presented this narrative that Trump was nuts, that Trump was totally out of touch with reality and getting more irrational and - crazy every day. Above Image: Meme posted on popular Democratic Party site after last Tuesday's election. And they would show videos of Republicans cheering Trump. So the Democrat message was gee, not only is - Trump out of touch, but all these Republicans - that are - cheering this and thinking this is great and - not saying a word against it, why these - Republicans are as bad as Trump! And I - think that was a major - factor. - Now the, - I just want to give one other point. - As far as, you know, the Iran war. - Obviously, the Iran war, - was a factor, - a big, big factor in, - in turning Americans - against Trump and against other Republicans. - But was it really - the war itself? - Or was it Trump's handling of the war - that, - made many Americans lose faith in Trump? And - I'm going to read something that's posted on our - Liberty and Prosperity website, which again is just my personal view. It's from a Facebook Page called the Reid Revolution in Richmond, Virginia. Click here for the link, The Reid Revolution. Nah- this loss wasn’t about “the war” to neuter a bloodthirsty enemy which has been killing innocent Americans for 50 years. The loss was about: -Promising daily that “the war” wasn’t actually a “war” and whatever it was, it would only last 6 weeks. On Election Day it had been almost 9 months. -Telling brave people in Iran that help was on the way and to rise up and then leaving them to be slaughtered before America took actio