Victor Davis Hanson Sees Hope for Republicans in Midterms
“Something’s definitely going on.”
During a recent appearance on the Sean Hannity show, Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution offered some hope for Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.
Hanson points to the fact that pollsters have underestimated the Republican vote in multiple cycles now. He also suggests that the radicalism of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has turned off a growing number of voters.
He points out that so far, this doesn’t look like a typical blue wave election.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
SEAN HANNITY: All right, joining us now with reaction to the race in Maine and other critical races across the country. We have Hoover Institution’s senior fellow, Victor Davis Hanson, is here. I will tell you, if you look at Mike Rogers and his debate, Darline Graham and her debate, Susan Collins and her debate, Bruce Blakeman and his debate, Republicans are crushing it in these debates, and I think they’re helping themselves a lot.
OK, if you believe the polls, Abdul El-Sayed would have won the primary in Michigan by 20 points. He won by barely a point. If you believe the polls between 20 and 30 points, Francesca Hong would have won. I am telling people not to trust the polls, but I will ask you, the great Victor Davis Hanson, as you look at Maine and New Hampshire and North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, as you look at Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Alaska, what are you seeing? Iowa would be another one.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Something’s definitely going on. I mean, for a supposed blue wave, Sean, there’s these races in Minnesota and Maine and Michigan and Oregon and New York, whether Senate or gubernatorial, they shouldn’t be so close. And when you add in the second factor that in the last three elections, the pollsters have been off by three to five to the detriment of Republicans.
So I think it’s a question of time. Can the Republicans get the right message out, and they’re doing pretty well? Do they have enough time, and do they have enough money? And one thing that’s in their favor is, at least they’re authentic. They’re not erasing their social media accounts. They’re not trying to double back and say, I really didn’t mean that.
They are what they are. But their opponents are starting to panic because, basically, they have an agenda that’s about 40% approval, and they know it, and they know if they can get elected, then they will announce what they said in the campaign and reveal their true self. So the challenge for the Republicans is, can I show the people who they really are?
And these are not authentic people during the campaign, and they stand for positions and issues and ideologies that are incompatible in the United States.
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Hope he’s right cause I had an awful day at the local county republican headquarters in Texas
Hope he’s right cause I had an awful day at the local county republican headquarters in Texas
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lord–you’re in williamson county–it hasn’t been representative of texas for over twenty-five years–you’re in close proximity to one of the largest collection of progressive freaks on the planet–most of them don’t have a clue about this state and what it is
Mid term elections are typically about turnout. Basically whose base is more motivated to vote.
Unlike any recent election the GOP is spending far more than the Democrats on advertising and on canvassing and overall ground game.
Trump is campaigning relentlessly across the nation to rally the MAGA base recruiting and motivating campaign volunteers.
The Democrat leftist base is motivated but largely in blue cities and states not crucial to control of Congress.
It will be an uphill battle but I think the GOP has a real chance to hold both houses and add a couple of key Governor pickups.
Hi, too, hope VDH is right. Having had over a decade of inside experience, trying to cover enough areas to prevent the cheating in voting in Minnesota, my biggest concern is the going on 30 years of cheating by the DFL/Democrats. They have perfected the system. We have not had a non-Democrat statewide officers since 2010. SOS Steve Simon has refused to release records to DOJ. The list is endless.
For this midterm election, we have some fantastic candidates. If we could get AG, that would be enough, but cheating is rampant.
As I posted in the Tafoya Flanagan story, I don’t believe any Republican will win a statewide office in MN.
Cheating is certainly a factor, but after living in Bloomington for 25+ yrs, the problem is a majority of MN white voters believe they owe a debt to the “oppressed POC”. Whether it is indigenous folks, Somalis, any Muslim, blacks, any/all illegals, white voters feel the need to sacrifice their, and their neighbors, well being to assuage their “white guilt”.
It appears to be a form of brainwashing, probably the public schools have contributed, but that can’t be the entire picture.
Anywho, I retired and left the state 2yrs ago. Every day I read, see, or hear of something that makes me wish I could have left MN earlier.
Hope is not a strategy however
Not entirely true I begrudgingly admit. At least superficially.
The thing I keep thinking of is I keep hearing the talking heads talk about the “historic precedent” aka The Presidents’ party always loses congress in his final 2 years. But if the era of Trump has shown us one thing, those “historic precedent” don’t really hold sway anymore.
As far as polling, it is next to useless. I mean from Hillary Clinton being inevitable the polls have been pretty much wrong about everything.
The level of Doom/Gloom is way too high IMO. Show up to vote, drag family, friends and neighbors to the polls. Go volunteer if you’ve got time. Maybe donate directly to a candidate if you’ve got some spare change. There’s plenty of very competitive contests the GoP is gonna win. I believe we retain the Senate at current margin, possibly even expand majority and may even hold the HoR depending on turnout in the two dozen swing districts. The silver lining to the DSA onslaught in ’26 is that they can’t hide their agenda in ’28 and beyond b/c once in office they gotta govern/propose legislation/vote on legislation. If they move to the center their base will destroy them. They hafta drop their current campaign mode ‘moderate masquerade’ and go full leftist, commie/wokiesta in office and that means their true colors will be flying high for all to see.
Remember the Red Wave that did not happen? Who knows what will be, but it’s certain that Democrats will engage in Woke 2.
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