Fact Check: Have Republicans Failed to Flip a Single Seat Since Trump Won?

Cuellar, Dem from Texas. His trial was supposed to be in April 2026 and Trump pardoned him even BEFORE the trial in December of 2025. Must be pretty f****** guilty to take a pardon before you even had your day in court. 🙄 His brother has now been arrested so Cuellar better keep those Trump votes coming or they're all going down.

Cuellar has been a very conservative democrat for years, but he’s not as visible when you have a decent majority.

I had Sinema as a senator. She flipped to the dark side. I have not seen hide nor hair since she decided not to run for reelection. I don't know where she is now, but I can't say I care. Edit: And she dressed like an extra from The Fifth Element movie set.

Honestly we couldnt tell. Remember he was running against Dr Oz (a carpetbagger if there ever was one) and Fetterman was clever, down to earth, decent troll, and seemed like he was a pretty solid progressive. When he had the stroke everyone rallied to make sure he got a chance to recover and take his place back in the senate. He came back changed, deeply. Its unfortunate but unlike Gabbard I dont think he started off this way. Just vote him out and start over again.

Nah, Tulsi was an obvious snake to anybody but the Bernie worshipers. Fetterman probably wouldn’t be doing the clown shit he’s doing now if it weren’t for the stroke.

Fettermans history was disgusting even before elected, but that D drew votes. He pulled a shotgun on a black person for jogging.

What is this based on? The man married a formerly undocumented immigrant. Pretty sure she'd be shocked to learn he was a MAGA plant all along. Seriously, it's the brain damage. I feel terrible for older people who have these strokes, turn into monsters and then are accused of having always "secretly" been terrible people. Brain damage absolutely changes people in ways beyond their control. It's incredibly common among the elderly. Of course, I feel less bad for this guy, because he has power and he's hurting people. But I pity his wife, his kids and his staff, all of whom are reeling from this heel turn.

Thank you for taking that on! Sending positive thoughts to you and hope you win!

If I lived in TN I would vote for you.

Best of luck in November!

My wife is having our first children (twins!) in May. Her pregnancy and my own personal development that stemmed from it over the last several months have inspired me to run for our local school board at some point before they start school. Running for city council has also low-key been on my bucket list for years. If I make it onto one of those, who knows what else lies beyond for me?

I would run, but the first question that my local Democratic Party HQ is going to ask is "Have you attended the Spring Gala?", which is their biggest fundraising dinner event of the year. $250 minimum to just *attend*, $10k for a speaking opportunity. My county Democratic Party only cares about how much money I can raise. They don't give a bloody f*** what my actual positions on the issues are unless I have a wealthy backer. For added perspective, a NYC Dem Party fundraiser dinner isn't even $250/seat. It's much less, like $55.

You’re not optic bigtymer are you?

Good for you. Love that for us, Trump brought a lot of great D candidates in 2018 and hopefully he does the same in 2026

Which district? I am happy to help flip something in the Maryville area

Are you running against Diana Harshbarger?

always check with the central committee before doing stuff like this. I have a buddy who 20 years ago ran in a seat like this, the opposing party in retaliation (since they wanted unopposed) ran someone in several other elections that had not been contested. He lost by miles, and they other party flipped one of the seats they did not plan on funding someone to run for. It may be shady, but it is still how politics happen.

Hey, so you know how bourbon sales have collapsed? Trump did that. Not with tariffs - with the 51st state horseshit. Canada as a whole stopped buying American liquor products, and we ain't coming back. Maybe you can use that. Good luck!

I wish you luck! The state of the nation actually has had me thinking about it sometimes. I don't know if I would be in any way qualified. But we are stuck with some absolute dipshits here in Indiana. Fuckin Jim Banks out here, whose only job seems to be making memes.

Interested in doing the same thing but have no idea where to start

Would be hilarious imo, and more consequential than flipping the Mar-a-Lago seat, especially with a guaranteed Dem addition to the House a week later with Sherrill's replacement.

Would be excellent. And a glaring warning shot to the whole country, Republicans cannot win unless the cheat due to the mess they’ve made. 

I was thinking about this recently. I took a journalism elective in 1992 and they literally taught that on day 1. They focused on newspaper writing and explained that few readers get through the entire article, so put the most important information first and least important information last. Online articles are no longer aiming to quickly inform, but to keep you scrolling on the page as long as possible.

But that’s 28 flips out of how many total elections at this point? Not all 7000 have had general elections yet, so I feel like the proportion of those that flipped would tell more come 2026…though still by no means the most accurate extrapolation.

In all cults they tell their followers not to read the news or seek out other sources of information. They've done it in: -Jonestown -Scientology -Twin Flames and many, many more. Information is their enemy. That's why they're removing the press from the Pentagon too.

That's by design. They're not running the show. The Epstein class has them functioning as intended, and they own the media as well.

I'd argue it's because American culture is severely mentally ill. We got here for a reason. Whether we blame factors like propaganda and big money or whatever, it's symptomatic of the rot within our society. 

It is partially true...but not in a good way for them. Republicans have long been the "Party over Country" type - and have been FAR better at rallying around whatever their current leadership tells them to. Their think tanks, talking point distribution, entire apparatus around being a single party narrative is well documented, and is super evident when you see both people like Lindsay Graham shill for stuff he previously said would be disastrous for the country, while simultaneously ANY Republican who falls out of line like Massie or MTG is a "RHINO" and is attacked and primaried, even if their voting record goes along with 98%+ of Republican initiatives. On the other hand, Democrats have long tried to be the "big tent" party, appealing to both Moderates and Progressives (with a VERY SMALL dash of outright Leftists). Because of that, someone like Bernie Sanders, and Independent who caucuses with Dems but is truly more of a Leftist, has a VERY different platform than what the DNC publishes. That very well does lead to party in-fighting and struggles with messaging. It's the reason we had Hillary over Bernie in 2016. But that's a good thing. You should WANT a party that has those discussions, that doesn't simply fall into line. That debates a robust set of options on issues and tries to find compromise to make things work. We're seeing the end-state of that with the Republican party; Trump is their endgame, where being told to just stick to the talking points some think tank came up with is finally biting their asses, both locally and nationally. They are the dog that finally caught the car, and the tailpipe is starting to burn them.

The truth hasn't mattered for years... decades...

Well... they aren't wrong about the Democrats infighting and being generally incompetent. They are controlled opposition by this point being led by spineless cowards.

That's propaganda for you. Those in the cult gobble it up.

> Has one single thing gotten cheaper in the last year? Yes, [renouncing your US citizenship](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/state-department-slashes-fee-for-renouncing-u-s-citizenship-by-80-to-450) lol

Thanks for the distraction. I really enjoyed that.

Yes but we can also use the double entendre here and say that Trump fucks (rapes) kids and Trump also fucks kids by destroying America and their future. Saying rapes is definitely good too though.

Well, since no child is legally able to give consent, no it doesn't really.

Or the idiots on Reddit pretending to be leftists.

I’m running in Ventura, CA where the incumbent Republican has been in office since before COVID. The district has been so poorly managed fiscally that we are 2 years away from the State of California coming in and taking over our district due to insolvency. One of the richest coastal communities in California and our schools are almost insolvent. Make it make sense.