"On Tuesday night, in a special House election in Tennessee, the Republican candidate won by nine points in a district that Donald Trump carried last year by 22 points. That’s a huge swing to the left. Trump is in deep denial about the meaning of these results. He called this a great victory. He’s also been raging wildly that the Democrats’ affordability message is a scam."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/7

https://newrepublic.com/article/203940/angry-trump-unravels-2026-woes-gop-panic-grows-flashing-red

"On Tuesday night, in a special House election in Tennessee, the Republican candidate won by nine points in a district that Donald Trump carried last year by 22 points. That’s a huge swing to the left. Trump is in deep denial about the meaning of these results. He called this a great victory. He’s also been raging wildly that the Democrats’ affordability message is a scam."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/7

https://newrepublic.com/article/203940/angry-trump-unravels-2026-woes-gop-panic-grows-flashing-red

Charles Gaba reports on how the Republicans had nothing and still having nothing to offer as a healthcare plan other than a hobbled-together set of this and that loaded with poison pills. And the White House has put the kibosh on that mess, so that millions are now left in danger of losing healthcare subsidies.

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/6

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-waiting-room-trumps-health-care

Charles Gaba reports on how the Republicans had nothing and still having nothing to offer as a healthcare plan other than a hobbled-together set of this and that loaded with poison pills. And the White House has put the kibosh on that mess, so that millions are now left in danger of losing healthcare subsidies.

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/6

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-waiting-room-trumps-health-care

"The fact that a rural Tennessee district ended up just a high-single-digits win for Republicans should be a five-alarm fire for the party ahead of the 2026 midterms."

~ G. Elliott Morris

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/5

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-special-election-in-tennessees

"The special election in Tennessee was a dry run for the midterms."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/4

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/what-we-just-learned-about-the-battle

"You already can hear the central pitch for Democrats in 2026. 'Republicans have not put forth a single credible proposal to address the affordability crisis. Instead, life in America is more expensive,' House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote in a Dear Colleague letter to his fellow House Democrats this week."

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/3

"MAGA Republicans may have ended the shutdown standoff by luring eight feckless Senate Democrats to reopen the government without addressing the MAGA-induced healthcare crisis, but Republicans are still well on their way to losing the healthcare issue, and in turn setting themselves up for a sweeping defeat in the midterms."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/2

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/republicans-are-nowhere-on-healthcare

"Trump insisted yesterday that 'affordability' doesn’t mean anything to anybody,' but most Americans would disagree."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #economy #healthcare #affordability #Tennessee
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3-2025

@GhostOnTheHalfShell I think the horse owned by #Tennessee #BananaRepublican congressman #TimBurchett has more sense that most voters in #Knoxville. https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/rep-tim-burchett-kicked-by-horse-breaks-rib/