US 2026 Midterm Elections Thread

j_hungary said:
The main issue here is the cost of living. This is going to make or break the election because that's what the independent wanted. Trump supporters are going to vote for Trump's GOP no matter what, and the Dems are going to vote against, and from what we saw in 2024, there are more Trump supporters than Dem supporters.

The problem here is, you need a leader and a platform to win; Dems don't have both, and like in 2024, they can't just run on an "I am not Trump" party. You need realistic policy and a campaign.

Democrats most likely will take back the House, but to get the Senate and the President's Office in 2028, they still have a long way to go. One strange thing is that there are actually more individual effort in the Democrat party than the party line.
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The individual efforts are trying to coalesce into pushing the party to rebuild a platform, that draws voters in the middle towards them.

You are right it about the economy, before it is about anything else. But considering how much Trump has created disasters effecting the economy; tariffs and the Iran war as just two examples, saying you want to have the power of the purse back in the hands of those who will not just rubber stamp Trump is appealing to some independents.

Dems can have a platform; “Invest in America and its future”. Focus on making housing affordable again, by getting interest rates down (and the issues that feed into that) as well as incentivize building. Then there is healthcare, an issue that comes up as a top priority; helping people get their coverage back that many lost in the past year under Trump’s actions regarding Obamacare. More jobs for childcare and elder care workers can help ease the burden on people sandwiched between taking take of their parents and their kids.

With the push for data centers before there is enough electricity to support them, Dems could push for a requirement data companies build small modular nuclear reactors and connect them to the grid to offset the burden. Dems could also push more regulation of flock cameras, and more regulation to oversee ICE.

Furthermore, it’s these non-establishment Dems that can break from party orthodoxy and advocate for stronger ways to employ national power to bring about a solution to the Middle East impasse, which is draining national resources to contain, and allowing China to leapfrog us to parity in key technologies and global influence. For example, some one like El-Sayed could advocate for solving the upstream problems in the Middle East and Latin America, to mitigate the root causes of the migrant crisis to Europe and the US, respectively.

Dems could advocate for being more lower end factories to Latin America (friend shoring), from places like China or Vietnam, and stabilizing the region economically, and apply pressure to uphold human rights and good governance; so that migration feels less like a necessity.

The platform is there. Dems just need enthusiastic and believable advocates to carry the message to the voters. Candidates supported by corporations (corporate dems) don’t seem believable as willing to regulate these large companies, especially in tech.

Ever since the tea party came out of a response to the Obama years, the electorate has been waiting for a democratic counter-response. This seems to be the year:
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The key factors for Dems converting any gains in ‘26 into a presidential win in ‘28, is appearing as the party pushing improvements to affordability and quality of life without appearing as the party stoking disorder; so this new dem party will be trying to contain any new BLM protests; trying to have issues resolved quickly with better police-community relations. More funding for mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation to get homeless reduced. Basically, Dems will be following the Mamdani mayoral leadership, but could also be incentizing industry to make things Americans can afford again such as simple affordable pickups and crossovers. Get American industry locally and globally competitive in more industries.

With Bill Clinton and NAFTA, and Obama with more of the same, we saw the Midwest get shafted. Trump won over the Midwest promising reinvestment but never held investors to their word. Look at Hong campaigning in Wisconsin in front of the failed Foxconn plant.
 
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FuturePAF said:
The individual efforts are trying to coalesce into pushing the party to rebuild a platform, that draws voters in the middle towards them.

You are right it about the economy, before it is about anything else. But considering how much Trump has created disasters effecting the economy; tariffs and the Iran war as just two examples, saying you want to have the power of the purse back in the hands of those who will not just rubber stamp Trump is appealing to some independents.

Dems can have a platform; “Invest in America and its future”. Focus on making housing affordable again, by getting interest rates down (and the issues that feed into that) as well as incentivize building. Then there is healthcare, an issue that comes up as a top priority; helping people get their coverage back that many lost in the past year under Trump’s actions regarding Obamacare. More jobs for childcare and elder care workers can help ease the burden on people sandwiched between taking take of their parents and their kids.

With the push for data centers before there is enough electricity to support them, Dems could push for a requirement data companies build small modular nuclear reactors and connect them to the grid to offset the burden. Dems could also push more regulation of flock cameras, and more regulation to oversee ICE.

Furthermore, it’s these non-establishment Dems that can break from party orthodoxy and advocate for stronger ways to employ national power to bring about a solution to the Middle East impasse, which is draining national resources to contain, and allowing China to leapfrog us to parity in key technologies and global influence. For example, some one like El-Sayed could advocate for solving the upstream problems in the Middle East and Latin America, to mitigate the root causes of the migrant crisis to Europe and the US, respectively.

Dems could advocate for being more lower end factories to Latin America (friend shoring), from places like China or Vietnam, and stabilizing the region economically, and apply pressure to uphold human rights and good governance; so that migration feels less like a necessity.

The platform is there. Dems just need enthusiastic and believable advocates to carry the message to the voters. Candidates supported by corporations (corporate dems) don’t seem believable as willing to regulate these large companies, especially in tech.

Ever since the tea party came out of a response to the Obama years, the electorate has been waiting for a democratic counter-response. This seems to be the year:
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The key factors for Dems converting any gains in ‘26 into a presidential win in ‘28, is appearing as the party pushing improvements to affordability and quality of life without appearing as the party stoking disorder; so this new dem party will be trying to contain any new BLM protests; trying to have issues resolved quickly with better police-community relations. More funding for mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation to get homeless reduced. Basically, Dems will be following the Mamdani mayoral leadership, but could also be incentizing industry to make things Americans can afford again such as simple affordable pickups and crossovers. Get American industry locally and globally competitive in more industries.
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Was talking to a friend of mine who is doing a PhD in Political Science. We were discussing why there is no change in lowering house prices with successive governments from both parties (we were talking about Australia, but it's still relevant)

The issue here is, if you want to lower house prices, you are bound to piss off the people who already own houses. In Australia, 72% of Australians own properties; will they be okay with lowering their asset value so people can get on board easier?

Any or any type of lowering house prices is going to be doomed to fail; the only way forward is to basically tax the homeowner to subsidise people who are trying to buy their first home. But to do that, you are going to need a hell of a political capital, and we are talking about the Australian government, where the winner decides all and takes all.

The problem with Trump's 2nd term so far is, basically, as predicted, he cares shit all about we the citizens. I remember saying this when Trump won in 2024: his second term is going to be him going after his political enemy and enriching himself. This is exactly what he did; people are going to wake up to it after being promised the world, but the question is, waking up to who? Are the Democrats going to be the answer? 2 years on from the 2024 defeat (well, almost 2 years), The dem is still not the answer. As I pointed out in the other post, the Dem is very decentralised right now; the fights are there, and people are there to fight it. The problem is, they were fighting as individual candidates, not a coalition group. And that's going to present a problem in 2028

Most people are saying the reason why Dems are decentralised like this is that they are themselves doing a reform, and people need to push (like you said) to be the dominant power, which means unless the Dems win big in the midterm, the current status quo fight is still going to be there with the Democrats fighting amongst themselves between the establishment and the socialist, and not trying to win an election, and I don't see the dem can win big in this mid-term.......
 
j_hungary said:
Was talking to a friend of mine who is doing a PhD in Political Science. We were discussing why there is no change in lowering house prices with successive governments from both parties (we were talking about Australia, but it's still relevant)

The issue here is, if you want to lower house prices, you are bound to piss off the people who already own houses. In Australia, 72% of Australians own properties; will they be okay with lowering their asset value so people can get on board easier?

Any or any type of lowering house prices is going to be doomed to fail; the only way forward is to basically tax the homeowner to subsidise people who are trying to buy their first home. But to do that, you are going to need a hell of a political capital, and we are talking about the Australian government, where the winner decides all and takes all.

The problem with Trump's 2nd term so far is, basically, as predicted, he cares shit all about we the citizens. I remember saying this when Trump won in 2024: his second term is going to be him going after his political enemy and enriching himself. This is exactly what he did; people are going to wake up to it after being promised the world, but the question is, waking up to who? Are the Democrats going to be the answer? 2 years on from the 2024 defeat (well, almost 2 years), The dem is still not the answer. As I pointed out in the other post, the Dem is very decentralised right now; the fights are there, and people are there to fight it. The problem is, they were fighting as individual candidates, not a coalition group. And that's going to present a problem in 2028

Most people are saying the reason why Dems are decentralised like this is that they are themselves doing a reform, and people need to push (like you said) to be the dominant power, which means unless the Dems win big in the midterm, the current status quo fight is still going to be there with the Democrats fighting amongst themselves between the establishment and the socialist, and not trying to win an election, and I don't see the dem can win big in this mid-term.......
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If Dems get behind El Sayed to win the general election in Michigan’s senate race it will be a big tell of the unification and reform of the party around a platform that could go national and be believable by the electorate.

Yes, homeowners don’t want to lose value in their homes, which is why while building homes would be ideal, but a more palatable/realistic option is better connecting declining house markets and job centers, and not rock the boat amongst homeowners, especially high propensity voters such as the boomers. So highways in good states of repair and affordable vehicles are a quick way (within a year) to quickly make this possible around places such as New York, as well as more public transportation (clean and frequent buses) for that “last mile” connection to work. While incentives for industry to come back to the US and locate in areas with a declining housing market, taking the pressure off more expensive markets.

Long term we need high speed commuter rail to link areas with affordable housing and areas where many jobs are located. For example, if a person could live in Scranton, PA and get to work in an hour by train (which would normally take 2 hours by car at best), it would open up that housing market, and areas beyond to be almost an extension of the New York metro area. The safer and more lively we make cities the more likely this is what most younger and middle aged people want; live well in a nice home and have the convenience of a quick (and affordable) trip to the local big city.

After seeing what Mamdani is doing in New York, there are a lot of Americans that want their own mayor to be like Mamdani, and that means better big cities and a healthy urbanism-suburban model forming, if we get those infrastructure investments.

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That Abdul El Syed guy my FB feed is full of has won the race, saw that on news... does it impact anything?
 
Israel comes to her dream but she was running for US senate 🙄

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Starlord said:
That Abdul El Syed guy my FB feed is full of has won the race, saw that on news... does it impact anything?
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If Dems take the senate (with 52 senators because fetterman is gonna become a Benedict Arnold next year) and the house they can check Trump’s agenda; not give the funds he needs to carry out his plans.
 
FuturePAF said:
If Dems take the senate (with 52 senators because fetterman is gonna become a Benedict Arnold next year) and the house they can check Trump’s agenda; not give the funds he needs to carry out his plans.
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I really hope that dems get their shit together, I can't vote as of now so my opinion doesn't matter much, but if i was a American citizen i would want to have dems taking a stronger stand over new wars, Genocide in Gaza/Palestine, and harsher embargo's on Israel due to war crimes, but unfortunately a lot of dems are corrupt and pro-Israel, this Michighan lady literally said Israel comes in her dream lol Democrats betrayed their core voter, and I heard that from a lot of Dem voters who are leftists that the choice between a crazy Republican and pro genocide demo is always a hard one. Maybe young Democratic leaders, and some democratic socialists can change the tide for dems? I know Mamdani and this Abdul guy seems very famous, and majority of their supports stems from young people.
 
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Michigan voter: “I voted for Abdul because he doesn’t take money from AIPAC. I’m not voting for anybody who takes money from AIPAC.”

Reporter: “And why is that?”

Michigan voter: “Because the money should be spent here not over there [in Israel].”
 
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