The 2026 Midterm Elections: An Autopsy

I need to talk about the 2026 midterms, but in order to understand what transpired in my autopsy report, we also have to look back at the 2024 presidential election and the 2022 midterm elections. I'm also going to be talking about why Texas was always purple and Florida isn't as red as everybody makes it sound or believe. So let's start off with what does this all mean right now? What this all means, depending on where you are. It seems like a repudiation of Trump, maybe even his policies, but really this is a rejection of the lack of focus and leadership of the GOP in general. MAGA itself is not that. The principles of MAGA are what a lot of supporters of the president and the GOP feel betrayed. And that all stems from, it's not Iran. Iran is just the latest catalyst to all this because Israel. So Iran being one of them. Mass deportations, or the lack thereof, that's one of them, big one. And third would be the economy. And Iran and the deportations all connect to the economy. And depending on where you are, the economy is doing better or far worse than the previous administration. And look, there's just so many aspects about all this to go this way, that or the other. So I'm going to speak about the California perspective from the California perspective, while also eventually talking about what I know and understand of Texas and Florida. But in terms of California, where because of our green initiatives and environmental policies, we've basically exported all of our stuff. to overseas we depend on foreign oil we depend on china and far east asia to import a lot of our stuff and because we've done so we don't have the factories and refineries here to do that kind of stuff either get our own oil because chevron is on the way out valero is on the way out other ones have already left and we have the highest gas prices of the entire country here in california we send our recycled goods all the way to china so they can or Far East Asia, they can burn it, and a lot of the people over there are getting cancers of all sorts because they're burning plastic and stuff right there that's feeding into the rivers that then their families are all getting sick. Why? Because we're doing our part in recycling. Yeah, fantastic. We're harming the environment, but well that's a story for another time. But because we depend on foreign manufacturing so much, when the tariffs were slapped, guess what, California? spiked in terms of cost of living. We're already the most expensive state in the union and we already have the highest fuel cost in the union, whereas the neighboring states are basically two and a half to three dollars cheaper per gallon here. That's insane. But then when you're basically exporting, like importing 70 to 80 percent of your fuel to here, you're going to really feel it at the pump. So there were supporters of Trump, and I know them very Very personally, a lot of them here. In California, that really soured on the administration because now it's like, dude, we were supposed to be turning a leaf, but the tariffs that were slapped made the cost of goods and supplies for even construction and all that skyrocket. So what does that mean when you have a state that says because the cost of living is more expensive, we need to raise the minimum wage? And it just goes back and forth like a ping pong. Oh, it's minimum wage, raise the minimum wage, raise the minimum wage because cost of living keeps going up, rent keeps going up, we're going to need a rent cap, rent freeze, rent control, and all that stuff. When you have all those policies piling one on top of another, top of another, top of another in California, the cost of living is going to keep going up. And a lot of these things that people complain about in terms of election fraud or election integrity questions and such, because they're finally getting involved after the 2020 election steal, because it was, they're finally paying attention. But for anybody that actually looks into it, they'll read. realize that a lot of these things that they're complaining about, such as ballot harvesting or mail-in ballots or even mailing in late, some of these things have been installed decades ago. The Democrats play the long game. Republicans play it by every single cycle. That's why they can't get their act together because they didn't take advantage of the tea party when it happened. In fact, they laughed about it and they teabagged them. And it wasn't handled correctly the first time, but that's what Trump was able to get together and coalesce and basically propel him into the national platform. And he was able to nail it. And in Trump's first term, because he wanted to appease both sides of the political aisle, and it's like, hey, Trump was a Democrat. Oh, crap. He had carryovers from Obama in the administration that sabotaged the administration in the first go. So he learned his lesson. And the second time, he didn't have that. But what he did have were a lot of former. Democrats turned Republican, which weren't. Some of them claimed to be MAGA. Like, you've been MAGA for like 12 minutes. What are you talking about? Suddenly, they were in the administration. Some of them didn't work out so well. Then there were others that brought baggage with them that also ruined their, I guess, their careers, their tenure in the administration. Looking at... And that... Oh, my goodness, Kristi Noem. Kristi Noem, for all intents and purposes, the DHS was better run under her. And after she went out and someone else was replaced, then, well, you don't have that anymore. But when it comes to thinking about all this, like what happened to immigration, what happened to the mass deportations, because during Biden, we had open borders, about 20 million, depending on who you talk to, illegal immigrants crossed the borders and were sent to here and there in different parts of the country. They did not participate in this election, at least most of them didn't as far as we know, but that doesn't mean there weren't immigration fraud or not even immigration fraud, but legal immigration fraud, as I call it. In the form of H-1Bs, that's made it. And what I mean by that is because there's a lot of scammers that can actually create these fake degrees in online universities to say, look, you need this degree or whatever so you can qualify for this visa to go to the United States and this and that. Texas has that issue of H-1Bs, big-time issues. Their infrastructure cannot keep up with the H-1Bs that they have imported there, and in some places for Canada. You don't even know you're in Texas. That's why, also, Texas has an Islam problem that's been growing for a long time that they're not paying attention to. There's an Islamic city trying to be built in Texas. So that's why there's a lot of concern about communist jihadis, because of that. And when you're seeing other states, like in Michigan, New York, And all those voting for a communist. It's only a matter of time before it happens, too, in places like Texas. But anyway. Just remembering the issues that I was talking about in terms of 2024, mandate of the people, what was done? Nothing. Yeah. We got the lockdown in the borders, which is phenomenal. Great, but not the northern border, because there's almost no attention to our northern border with Canada. And there's stuff happening over there that nobody really knows about that we have to be giving it attention, especially with China making such close alliances with Canada. But then there's the next part. 2022 was supposed to be a referendum on Biden. That's what people are saying that 2022 was. Oh, this is a referendum on Trump and all that. 2022 was supposed to be a red tsunami that never happened. And I said, what are you guys talking about? We're not going to have a red tsunami. Maybe a red wave, but most likely a trickle. Because there are wave breakers that the Democrats installed in different places to ensure that a red. Tsunami or wave never happens because the election integrity issues that we had in 2020 carried over 2022. Some of the stuff was dealt with in 2024, but it was too big to rig that those things even failed. And it felt so hard that even some Democrats were asking what happened to these other 18 million mystery voters that didn't participate in this election. They should have voted for Kamala Harris if they were going to make history or whatever, and they didn't bother showing up, where some people on Reddit were actually asking. Asking, holy smokes, did we really cheat in 2020? Well, duh, we told you. So then we have voter rolls being cleaned. Finally, things were being done great. But 2022 was not the red tsunami that everybody thought it would be. There was no way it would have happened. And not just that, there was really no true spine for the GOP yet. Because the GOP was still reeling about, well, did Trump look like he organized January 6th? He didn't. And they blamed Parler for it. It wasn't their responsibility. It was Facebook and Twitter. But Parler's the one that took the fall. And Facebook and Twitter went unencumbered. So no one bothered them. So when you look at historically what happened, the GOP had never had a spine. Trump is the one that basically dragged everybody. He's like, dude, get your act together. And he's like a wrecking ball. He's like, follow me. Like, they're not coming for me. They're coming for you. They just happen to be standing in the way, which is true. That's true. So 2022. A lot of Trump's endorsements, they got voted in. But they try to say that, oh, no, his staying power wasn't there. 2024 changed all that. The dude got shot at. And then everybody started awakening to the reality. Holy smokes, they're really coming after us. Duh, they've always been coming after you guys. Look what happened to frickin' Charlie Kirk. It wasn't the Jews. Here's the news. So nothing was done with the mandate of the people. So 2026. Is this really a referendum or a repudiation of MAGA? Depending on where you look, what you're going to see are Democrats being voted in in similar statewide elections where conservative propositions or measures and things are also passing. That doesn't make any sense when you look at it. I'm not talking about any fraud or anything. No, I'm just saying MAGA was not the one on the ballot. It was the failure of leadership on the ballot, okay? So that means conservative principles were not the ones that were being rejected. I was given a few states. I can't look at them all right now, but it might have been Kansas and North Carolina that both voted in voter ID. California obviously rejected it, but those other two states where they were there, where you had Democrat wins, were also voting for voter ID. So what does that tell you? Even in California, where you have all these liberal whack jobs, even in the last election cycle, even though they voted Democrat, they turned down rent control, which is the most communist policies you can get. So they rejected that. So that's what I mean, that MAGA was not the one on trial here. It was the direction the GOP was taking us or not taking us. They couldn't pass the frickin' Save America Act to get voter ID, at least at the federal level or something like that. They couldn't do that. And then when it comes to immigration and deportations or the lack thereof, what did you think was going to happen? Man, I put it up on my Instagram stories some time ago. If I can find it real quick here where I'm talking, then I'll find it and read it to you guys about what was going to be anticipated. I talked about this on my show in 2024 when President Trump got elected. And people were saying that, yes, it was all going to be something great because we're going to have, whatchamacallit, We're going to have mass deportations and things like that. And let's see. Here we go. I posted this back on January 13, 2025, because I had to do this. People were reacting to the stuff they were seeing happening all around them. But what I announced on my show after the election, or even the lead up to election about mass deportations, I look, it's going to be a dark time. It's a necessary thing that needs to be done. There's no good or right way to go about it. It's going to look ugly. And I don't know what else to say other than just prepare yourself for the worst because the optics are going to look terrible. So then when things were getting ugly with the ICE protests here in Los Angeles and all that, I ended up putting this. The DOGE cuts came with collateral damage affecting friends of mine. The tariffs also came with collateral damage affecting my industry and the realization that the U.S. does not have the manufacturing capability to replace it. Illegal immigrant employment has been something industries have taken advantage of for decades while the government turned the other way, only now realizing that rounding up cheap but experienced laborers would impact their respective industries and destroy communities. This is all to say it is a self-inflicted problem that's built up over decades. To try to fix this will look ugly, mistakes will happen, disagreements over policy changes are inevitable, it will hurt economically and even emotionally. The USA is being bankrupted by the world, literally and figuratively. We need to tend to our own and deal with our problems. It won't be fixed overnight, might take a generation, it needs to be done. So the problem I've had with the administration is them trying to fix everything quite literally overnight And they haven't been able to fix one thing. And the GOP has not grown a spine. And in 2026, you see exactly what I'm talking about. They don't have a spine. They don't. So they're going to go moderate. Because, oh, the Democrats won, so now we've got to really consider moderate. When has that ever worked? McCain didn't get voted in. Mitt Romney didn't get voted in either. They lost big, both of them. But that's likely who you might see. If Marco Rubio isn't groomed to be the next president, J.D. Vance is not going to do it. I never trusted J.D. Vance, honestly. So Marco Rubio has really transformed himself. He's someone that I can see getting behind as my support for president. But that's still something far away to look at and consider. But MAGA was not rejected. What was rejected was the failure in leadership from the GOP. And also, Mr. President, you surrounded yourself with yes-men. People have been hurting economically, particularly in blue states, and your policies that affected even on top of everything else was only adding insult to injury because they weren't getting any help from their blue states, and then they started hurting even more at the pump, California being one of them. It's insane just how expensive things are here. While most of the blame is being put on Washington, these are policies that are state and local that people don't pay attention to. So they'll be complaining and complaining to Washington for all this. But here's the thing. Do you guys know where the MAGA capital of the United States is? MAGA capital. There was actually an official designation made of a city that's considered MAGA capital of the United States. I'll give you three options. Florida, Texas, California. Guess. If you guess Florida, you're wrong. Texas, you're wrong. It's California. The real Orange County, Huntington Beach, that's the MAGA capital. That's not Florida. That's not Texas. After the financial meltdown, there were a lot of institutions that left from here, moved their businesses over to northern Texas. That's what caused the big economic boom in Texas, especially in the Dallas, Plano, all that area that they started just growing like crazy. Because these financial institutions needed to consolidate and relocate over there. And people that could move from here moved over there. Some of them with liberal sensibilities. So that's why Austin is the way it is. It's a mini California, but it's not all the fault of Californians. Although Californians did move over there and kept voting for the same policies for why they left California in the first place, which is pretty stupid. Dallas has, as far as I know, has always been a liberal city. And if you look back all the way in 2012, I think it was, under Obama, this is before Black Lives Matter was a thing. You have police officers ambushed and killed, and that was in Dallas. So every state has its own problems, regardless of whether they're Republican or Democrat-controlled. But Dallas definitely is a lot like L.A. Austin is very much so like San Francisco. And just give me an example of what you're dealing with. Texas has always been purple. OK, so people think, oh, yeah, you know, the Republicans really controls a deep red state for the most part, the rural areas. Yeah, just like California. But you know what? When Ted Cruz was running against Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke was considered a beta male by all intents and purposes. And then you have Ted Cruz, son of immigrants that fled Cuba, you know, conservative principles and values. And he was just like Ken Paxton in Puerto Rico. Ted Cruz barely won that race. No? That was Texas. You know what did it in this time? Trump can blame Greg Abbott for going rhino all he wants or whatever. That's, no. Your immigration, the raids. My people are a single issue voter and immigration is one of those sensitive things. See, it's a double-edged sword. You have the same people on the right, the Marxist right and the conservative right. All right. Some of the conservative right have liberal sensibilities among my people, and that's with respect to illegal immigration, like immigration in general. So what they saw was awful to them because maybe some of them were family. So that was a rejection of that. Meanwhile, there were others on the right that said Trump didn't go far enough. So that's why it's a predication of that. So, yeah, immigration was a double-edged sword. And then you have the issue of the tariffs making everything more expensive, and then the Iran war because of Israel, blah, blah, blah. And then everything became more expensive because of it. And President Trump saying the Strait of Hormuz is open again, Mr. President. It was never closed in the first place. So that becomes a terrible talking point. And have we finished? I thought we finished last year. No, we didn't. Then we struck again this year. And it's like, look, if we're not done with this thing pretty soon, Soon, you either have to... Going hard, or you won't be able to save face on this one. And I think that's where Trump is stuck on this one. And because he's stuck, that's why everybody from the conspiracy side tries to make like, oh, yeah, you know, he's going to go nuke Iran because Benjamin Netanyahu is pressuring him to. And the same day that Trump announced that they're cutting $4 billion in aid to Israel. So I don't know how that works in Israel's favor. But anyway, the point is that people are always going to find things to complain about. But ultimately, it's the economy, stupid. And the things that were being put in place, I understood why they were being put in place. It's just that in understanding that the manufacturing wasn't here to accomplish. And pick up the lack thereof that we're cutting off through tariffs. It was going to hurt. It was going to cascade everything. That's why you started seeing some policy shifts and changes because the Trump administration went extreme one way and realized, holy smokes, we can't do that. No, duh. So who the hell was advising the president? That's really the question. Who was advising you, Mr. President? Because these were bad moves, okay? So this election was a repudiation, not of MAGA. It was the leadership because this is what the people wanted. It's what they wanted. A mandate of the people. Then you have frustrated voters that didn't get their way and others that were being punished for their votes. Literally punished for their votes. But in doing so, now that emboldened the other side who has been in it, has been on it, I did an episode called How Democrats Legally Rigged Elections or How Elections Are Legally Rigged. To explain the voting systems and parameters and things that have been installed over the decades, but people didn't realize any of that until after 2020. So you're trying to undo decades, decades of systems that have been put in place legally to rig it in the favor of one side. So then can Texas come back if they snap out of it? Yeah, but you got an H-1B problem over there. Partly the administration that tried to cap it too. Yeah, but they're the ones that are there. Good luck to you in Texas. And good luck with dealing with your Islam issue over there. Because you have an Islamification problem. And in 2012, I believe it was, Oklahoma had to, the voters had to say no to Sharia law. To be considered as a law that the courts had to weigh in on. What? No, no, no, no, no. It shouldn't be that they have to reject Sharia law. That's stupid. It shouldn't ever have to be considered in the first place. Florida. There's the last thing I'll say. Because I was there just recently. And Florida, for those of you that don't remember, was a swing state, swing state just like Ohio. Just 26 years ago, we didn't know we're going to have a Republican president or a Democrat president, Al Gore or George W. Bush. You guys don't remember that because Florida was always that swing state. And just eight years ago, Ron DeSantis ran for governor. And he barely beat out Andrew Gilliam, I think his name is, a gay black man. I believe what torpedoed his campaign towards the end there was the fact that he was found in a hotel, passed out, that there were drugs involved or whatever. And that's how Ron DeSantis ended up eking by to become the governor of Florida. Four years later, Ron DeSantis wins in a landslide. Transformation of Florida. Fantastic, phenomenal place that people wanted to go live on. And conservatives from California moved from here to over there to keep, to turn the place more red. So now you see that Florida just beat out the Democrats there. Why? I thought you guys were deeply conservative. No, you're not. You never really have been. Just like Texas, you've been purple. And it could always flow and flip the other way at any given time. And with weak candidates, barely beat by. barely. Even with supposedly record turnout, whatever it was. But after Ron DeSantis, really? Burley? I had this conversation with people when I was in Florida because everybody picked on me because I was from California. Like, of course. Like, oh, we're sorry. Welcome to America. It's like, welcome to America. I just, I reminded them about Ron DeSantis barely being governor. It's like, you guys don't even like Byron Donalds. You guys prefer Jay Collins. Oh my gosh. And they all got frustrated and angry. Trump supporters too. But they were upset that they did not get to choose in the primaries because they felt that Byron Donalds was selected by the GOP, pulling their shenanigans to pick their candidate instead of the candidate of the people in Florida. The Marxist right thought James Fishback could get it. Yeah, please give me a break. Jay Collins was the better pick for Floridians, and it wouldn't have been close. But we didn't get that. The GOP pulled their stunts again under Mitch McConnell in 2022. That's why we didn't have a red wave. The guy made sure to sabotage it. That was the Republican leadership in the Senate. And this time around, it was John Thune. He made sure that things fell this way. He's the one who refused to bring the Save America Act to a vote in the Senate. Then I reminded people about this. California has our, we have our issues. We have an insurance crisis over here. Absolutely. Then I brought it up over there. I said, hey, you guys have an insurance crisis, probably even worse than ours. Everyone started complaining about the insurance. Some people that I know that moved to Florida from a different state, like a Midwestern state, moved to Florida, couldn't live there, moved out of there to somewhere in the Midwest again, North Midwest, because they couldn't afford to live there because the insurance was insane. That's a Republican stronghold. How Byron Donalds is going to navigate that, I don't know. But that's an issue Floridians have to deal with. And it's an insurance crisis that's affecting things nationwide. So this is all to say that there are a lot of issues. And some of them are state-to-state issues. Texas has their own issues. Florida has their own issues. Everything is just like, it's a balancing act. California, that's why I say local elections matter. They always have. Everything that people complain about over here. That's from the state legislature. It's got nothing to do with the Washingtonian politics. It's just that the media only shows that. And people reacting to the stuff that's happening here, take it out on Washington, instead of realizing, wait, what the? It's actually here. We're supposed to be holding our governor accountable, our state legislature accountable, our local municipalities, the council members accountable. And we don't. We don't. They go, I'm going to go vote red down ballots. But the propositions, the measures, the justices. They don't have an R next to their name, so I don't know how to vote. I got a bunch of people asking me today just about that. Like, dude, I was talking about it on my Instagram. You guys follow me on Instagram. How many times are you guys just skipping through my stories? I don't know. I don't know what else I can do. You wait until the last minute and then realize, damn, I should have done a little more digging. That's just it, though. That's just it. These things. They're meant to be complicated. It's all set up that way to make it so frustrating. So then you can either refrain from voting or not. And speaking of refraining from voting, it is a fact that Republicans do not really turn out for the midterms. And that's the most frustrating thing of all. So that's why this is the last thing I'll leave you guys with. Some of you might have seen it. I posted it across my socials, but I'm going to read it from Parler. I put a couple of weeks ago, if you're sitting out the midterms because you're angry at the GOP, you're proving your ignorance. The ballots usually contain numerous tax and borrowing measures and others that erode or strengthen your civil rights. That's not even counting all the local offices and judges that have nothing to do with party affiliation. So if you sit this out because Trump, next time you wonder, how did this happen in my city? To find the possible culprit, start by looking into a mirror. I know some people that I know, some that I consider friends are, you know, just really reacting on Twitter right now. And all I can say is, do you guys get it now? Do you realize that once outside of your own bubble, the reality of things is not what you thought it was? And you know who unfortunately just doesn't get it is the president. And I posted that to my stories on Instagram and Parler because it's something that it's important to realize and call it out because President Trump earlier today had posted, I wasn't on the ballot and if I was, we would have won in a landslide. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump, to which I responded, respectfully, Mr. President, the GOP failed to do anything with the mandate of the people and you surrounded yourself with yes men that told you what you wanted to hear, the outcome. It was not a surprise to anyone paying attention. My attention continues to be California. And I know people are going to be reacting to Michigan voting in a literally terrorist-connected senator, Abu Sayyid, whatever his face is. How is that possible? I've been telling you about the Islamification of this country since the earliest days that I've been doing any of this. So now it's 23 years. It's about the long game. And Republicans are just not equipped to do it. It's like, did you want instant gratification and then just move on? It's like, no, you have to keep fighting for your freedoms because they're just one election away from being lost. That's it. See you in the next one.