Trump said at a breakfast with Republican senators at the White House on Wednesday morning that the previous night's election was "bad for the Republicans," but not unexpected and not a victory, because those areas "were always Democratic territory." He said the government shutdown was an important reason for the loss and said this election "taught us a lot." James Blair, the political director of Trump's 2024 campaign and current Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House, said in an interview that the key to the election was "the issue of money." He said that New Jersey Democrat Mickey Mouse Sherry focused heavily on cost of living during the campaign, while Republican candidates failed to effectively counter it; while Virginia Lieutenant Governor Wensum Earl-Sears "talked too much about transgender issues," which "wasn't even in the top five concerns of voters." Blair also said that New York leftist representative Zohran Mamdani "performed well" because he consistently emphasized "affordability." He predicted that Trump would focus on prices and cost of living in the mid-term elections next year.
Former White House strategist of Trump, Bannon, warned in an interview that the Republicans should see the election of the first democratic socialist mayor of New York, Mamdani, as a "warning." He pointed out that although many people within the Republican Party saw this as an opportunity to attack Democratic candidates, the growth of anti-establishment forces within the left was the real trend worth worrying about. Bannon said that explaining the party's defeat by blaming "blue state factors" was "not convincing." He said, "The key to modern politics is mobilizing low-voter-turnout voters, who clearly did this on Tuesday. This is actually the Trump model," and emphasized, "This is a very serious signal."
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