STATE OF TUESDAY: Why Republicans Deserve To Lose Tonight

A Daily Caller opinion column argues that Republicans have earned an electoral loss in Tuesday's midterms, judged on how little of their 2024 platform has materialized. The author contends that voters treat party loyalty like fandom, which frees politicians from answering for results.

On cost of living, the column says inflation reached 3.7 percent through September, compared with 2.4 percent at the same point two years earlier under Biden, and that gasoline rose 9.1 percent in September alone. It adds that the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues and that the country has been fighting Iran since February, which a Brown University tracker links to more than $1,100 in extra fuel costs per average household.

The columnist also points to ethics concerns: a reported $500 million deal in which investors tied to the UAE acquired 49 percent of a Trump family crypto business before the inauguration, and a $3.5 million PAC donation from the daughter of banker Julio Herrera Velutini, whom Trump pardoned months later. In a Harris poll, 21 percent of midterm voters said Democrats have the larger corruption problem, fewer than blamed Republicans.

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