Jonathan Lemire: Republicans Growing ‘Very Pessimistic’ as Trump’s ‘Reheated Arguments’ Fail to Move the Needle

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LEMIRE: “And Republicans that I spoke to for the piece, already doing a little bit of a post-mortem here, say it’s the three things. It’s Trump’s three broken promises, right? It’s the no foreign wars, which obviously Iran, he has done. He went way too far on the deportation plan. It’s not just the worst of the worst. And of course, it’s the idea of bringing prices down, which he has not done because of the war and because of his tariffs. And therefore, he’s recycling these old, he’s reheated arguments, right? And we’ve heard the — we’ve heard the anti-Islamic rhetoric that he used in 2016. We’ve heard the transphobia fear that he used in 2024. Even the communism stuff that he, as a creature of the 1980s, was steeped in. And Republicans I talked to say, None of that. They’re seeing None of that actually move the needle. And they’re growing very pessimistic about —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “It’s an old — it’s an old hit. It’s an old hit. I can say this. And the only person at the table, it’s old enough like me to remember it would be Eugene, like ‘The Hustle’ by Van McCoy and the South Soul Orchestra was hot in 1976. Don’t play that in 1983.