'2026 Will Be a Blood Bath': MAGA Says 'Warning Signs Are Flashing' After Blowout Losses

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/115353/2026-will-be-a-blood-bath-maga-says-warning-signs-are-flashing-after-blowout-losses


‘2026 Will Be a Blood Bath’: MAGA Says ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing’ After Blowout Losses
by Carl Gibson | November 5, 2025 - 6:37am

— from Alternet

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MAGA's reactions to 2025 election results suggested a dismal mood among Trump's supporters in response to the GOP's nationwide defeat. Turning Point USA executive Tyler Bowyer shared Trump's frustrations about him not being on the ballot, but also chastised Republican leadership for not doing the ground work to be more competitive.

"When Trump isn’t on the ballot and you don’t make investments in chasing votes, you get voters who stay home," Bowyer wrote.

Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night's losses to heart, saying: "The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing." He observed that "Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners," marking "their first statewide wins in 30 years."

Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory) tweeted: "Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath." MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that "2026 will be worse if we don't course-correct."

"Lame duck status is going to come even faster now," wrote conservative commentator Erick Erickson. Trump cannot turn out the vote unless he is on the ballot, and that is never happening again."

[CTyankee]

1. Somebody in the repuke party is paying attnention...

As a poet once observed: "Do not send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

[Raven123]

2. They may well, hopefully, be correct about 2026

Not sure I agree with how they got there. I would submit that Trump is on the ballot. His policies are being vigorously deployed. People finally know what it is like when (as the MSM likes to say) the guard rails are off. They feel it in their pockets, in their schools, on their streets and in their families.

The “Duh” moment seems to have arrived.

[karynnj]

23. Some proof that he WAS implicitly on the ballot came in the exit polls

in both NJ and VA. Trump was a factor in more than half the votes, more in the negative than the positive.

The fact is that Trump through words and actions is omnipresent, more than any President I can remember back to Kennedy.

At this point, his problem is that more people are against him than for him. What should trouble him is that in almost every NJ and VA county, there was a shift to the left. The good news with that is it increases the risk of Republican redistricting, where some districts have to be made weaker for them to create more Republican districts. We could be looking at a blue wave that raises our numbers everywhere. (As neither NJ or VA are solid red, this might not happen in areas that are far redder.)

[Lovie777]

3. GQP gerrymandering/redistricting on steroids.................

mail in ballots, voting rights for minorities, insurrection act, martial law, six asshole rw justices on the US SC, et al.............

It's going to get uglier.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. None of it will save them from the Blue Tsunami. Nt

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Can you imagine their predicament?

If they stay the course things will only get worse for them. On the other hand, once they open the government, the Epstein files will be released and then there will be no escape. The Trump supporters can’t hide behind the Johnson clause, claiming they didn’t know. It is going to go downhill from this point on for the Republicans:

[2naSalit]

6. I want it to...

Go downhill to the point their movement is so small it can be squished in the corner of the room under the toe of my boot.

[Jerry2144]

27. Or drowned in the bathtub

[2naSalit]

30. Too messy...

I like the cockroach killer method myself.

[LR3]

18. Not to piss in your Cheerios, but...

...no matter the vote in the House, I posit that there is 0% chance they will release the Epstein files, at least nothing in them that will incriminate Trump and the Rethuglicans. They absolutely can't, it would the (well deserved) end of their party.

[travelingthrulife]

21. But many others have had access so I think it might leak out. Didn't our corrupt AG

say she had a large team of people going through and tagging places where Trump and other rich people are named?

[LR3]

24. That would be great, but when?

The Biden admin had the files for 4 years and did nothing. Was Garland *that* inept?

I suspect that the reality is that the files contain much, much more than pedophilia and, if truly released, will bring the entire system down. Which may not be a bad thing.

[Volaris]

25. Ya we've made a lot of noise about johnson not swearing in vote 218,

But what would that do?
Force a HOUSE VOTE

Then to a Senate that will happily watch it die. And if it doesn't? (I think the Senate is TERRIFIED of this, they'll HAVE to fillibuster it all next year...)

It goes to trump to sign into law.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

The only way we're getting those files is with democratic party control of the ENTIRE government.

[newdeal2]

5. They haven't learned a damn thing

Instead, they will double down on Trump and milk it for however long it works.

The Repub states may even put up ‘26 props asking voters to allow a president to run for more than two terms in order to get out the vote.

[2naSalit]

7. Seems they...

Can't get above 30% in favor so that's a steep uphill slog for them.

No Kings is now a movement and it's already two to three times the size of maga. The blue tsunami is forming up and it looks to be massive when it hits, like next year.

[travelingthrulife]

22. Nope. Nothing learned. My MAGA brother is playing the christian persecution card.

[usonian]

8. What Mikey doesn't know will hurt him.

[Sailingdiver]

9. Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison

That's where he belongs.

[Scrivener7]

10. That is a really stupid take from Bowyer. This wasn't that Cankles wasn't on the ballot.

This is because people are seeing what Cankles is doing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Yes. 2025 facts trump 2024 propaganda. . . . .nt

[Ponietz]

11. You know it'll come down to whether the military backs him when he "invokes" the Insurrection Act

History’s greatest ratfucker isn’t finished.

[lees1975]

13. Trump was on every ballot cast yesterday.

And that is exactly why the GOP lost so badly, even in places that were once deep red. People want him gone.

[William Seger]

14. "When Trump isn't on the ballot and you don't make investments in chasing votes..."

... and when you suction yourself to the ass of a highly unpopular dictator wannabe who is pushing an extremely unpopular agenda as if he already is one, you get voters to come out!

[doc03]

15. I would think this would make at least some start breaking with Trump to save

their ass. Maybe after the primaries are over.

[area51]

16. Erickson: "... unless [Trump] is on the ballot, and that is never happening again."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. You made me smile and chuckle a little. . . nt

[travelingthrulife]

20. Never occurs to them to be decent human beings instead of trash.

[C_U_L8R]

26. Do they realize it's their own damn fault?

No, of course not. The dumb-dumbs will just double down on their idiotic ways. Excellent.

[Abstractartist]

28. Great night last night but

Great night but now it’s time to keep the foot on the gas. I felt very good last night. Many polling area I saw had voters hanging around and keeping an eye on their neighbors and friends. I suggested this in another post, and hoping in 2026, it will be the same…a show of force and large crowds help show that we are not going to take any 💩

[CousinIT]

29. Trump WAS VERY MUCH on the ballot. That's why Democrats WIPED THE FLOOR with his orange ass.

They're PISSED. OFF.

[Hekate]

31. Trump was definitely on the ballot, the most hated president ever, if polls are any indication

[C_U_L8R]

32. Make Your Time

For Great Justice