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‘Reagan Would Never Do This’: Republicans Point Fingers After Massive Blue Wave

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Some Republicans are pointing fingers at President Donald Trump after his 32-day midterm blitz failed to save GOP majorities in Congress.

“This was a complete repudiation of Trumpism,” one GOP strategist told the Daily Signal. “When you lose literally everything, there is no one else to blame. Trumpism expired, and conservatives need to start rebuilding the coalition.” 

Democrats retook control of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday. As of 2:17 p.m. EST Wednesday, Senate Democrats won 54 seats and the Republicans held 44, with races in Alaska and Mississippi still to be decided. In the House, Democrats won 249 seats to the Republicans’ 152. 

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said the GOP’s crushing loss of a Senate seat in South Carolina was “directly the result of his [Trump’s] actions.” It is the first time since 1998 the state is sending a Democrat to the Senate. 

After the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham in July, Norman ran in the special election to succeed him in the next full term. However, Trump endorsed Graham’s sister, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, who had been appointed to serve the remainder of the current term. Graham Nordone bested Norman in the August primary for the special election but lost the general election to Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews.

“Ronald Reagan would never ever have done what he did,” Norman told the Daily Signal of Trump. “And he’s paying a price for it. And the country’s gonna pay.” He noted “the big money that went in to defeat me, the million dollars he put up to distort my record.”

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