Some Republicans are growing worried that two key Senate races once considered critical to holding their majority are slipping from their grasp.

In more than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives, there is recognition that North Carolina and Georgia are looking less competitive than the party once anticipated and that decisions need to be made soon about whether to keep investing, even as party officials insist they are not walking away from their candidates there.

Republican senators like North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, said it was time for the party to make some tough decisions about spending.

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    More copium for the masses. I would bet real money that they’re not fearing shit. They own our government like it’s property. The entire thing is rigged. They’re just playing along so as not to stir things up.

    Watch when the elections are held. They will sweep the floor with the left because the left doesn’t know how to play the game, let alone win.

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    Maybe they should’ve stuck to their campaign promises like no new wars and addressing the cost-of-living crisis by making things affordable.

    Instead they

    1. Started a whole new middle-eastern forever war
    2. Claim there is no cost-of-living crisis as it gets objectively worst
    3. Tariffed everything so shit got way more expensive and even when they get ruled illegal the money is just refunded to the corporations who don’t pass it on back to the customers

    No shit you’re unpopular with voters.

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      Throw in a 4. All-in on trans bathrooms/sports terrors to try and work up the base, yet people are starting to see that it’s just not that important to them compared to 2.

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    Georgia is a (decreasingly) Republican state, but not a MAGA state. The governor, who prominently refused to go along with Trump’s 2020 election lies, got primaried by a Trump-nut, who lost like 3-1. The GOP candidate for Senate is one of the Trumpiest politicians in Georgia (now that MTG jumped ship). I’d really like to think this could be one of the last battles in the GOP civil war., but going all-in on Trump in Georgia was definitely a bad plan, even before the leopard started eating their faces.

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      Not to mention, the Democratic candidate is the incumbent! Georgia is a supposedly “red state” but both Senators are blue (which basically saved the entire Senate in 2020 – y’all’re welcome).

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        Thank you! I remember watching the election results come in for Georgia in 2020. Very grateful for the work of Stacey Abrams and for Georgia going blue.

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      I get that, but we really need to declare the Republican Party to be as dead as the Whigs. Republicans were just the larval stage before they morphed into their final form: MAGA. I’m not giving them the gift of deniability. They’re all MAGAs now, and they’ll all face the same reckoning.

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      The governor that self-certified his own election and then illegally destroyed the ballots even though the courts told him he couldn’t? But for some reason he’s in office and not prison?

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        That’s the one. He’s not MAGA, but he’s still Republican.

        Fun history of Georgia: as recently as 1998, Georgia elected a Democratic governor, and Democrats regularly won state-wide offices. In the wake of the 2000 fiasco, when everyone suddenly went to electronic ballots, Georgia chose a system with no paper trail, and no Democrat won a state-wide race for nearly 2 decades. Then, in 2020, they changed voting systems to one that includes a paper trail, and Democrats immediately won both Senate seats. The Republicans have never won a Georgia Senate race that included paper records.

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    How come? It’s NOT like Republicans CONTINUE to Block Legislation that would END the Things people HATE! Like the War!

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      We live near Western NC, and this area was hit hard by the hurricane two years ago, and is still trying to rebuild.

      Trump was there a couple of weeks ago threatening to not provide the rest of the Fema funding they’re expecting if his candidate didn’t get elected in the mid term. Even for the level of backwoods chud that would still show up at a Trump event, they weren’t happy with that.

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        What a way to win the hearts and minds of your constituents… by threatening them.

        What a fucking douchebag.

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          Get ready. After the Midterms, theit next objective is to end elections, because otherwise, they’ll be going to prison after 2028. It won’t be about winning hearts & minds, it will be about establishing FEAR, so expect not only threats, but vicious violence.

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            Allegedly there’s a cadre of his inner circle that’s already pushing to establish martial law and cancel the midterms.

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    Republican candidates can’t compete with Cooper and Ossof. They both get huge bipartisan support. In 2016 people had Trump flags and Roy Cooper flags on their houses.

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    Roy’s our boy in NC. No chance the pedophiles are going to win here, but they will certainly try to ratfuck the results

    If they try to fuck with the votes, we shut it down like COVID

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    Nate Silver has both Georgia and North Carolina solidly D in the deluxe (D+10.3, D+8.8) and classic (D+9.4, D+8.3) models

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      Never forget “Kamala will win Iowa by +14 points” and “Hillary has a 98% chance of winning” whenever you see a poll.

      You’re in this shitty situation right now because lots and lots of apathetic people believed the polls and didn’t bother to vote. We know cause the day after Kamala lost you know what search term trended? “How to vote after election day.”