Democrats' New Slop, Same as the Old Slop

RedState 

The Democrats, despite what legacy media might be claiming, actually have quite a few hurdles to clear if they want to win back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. (It's not a cake walk for Republicans, either, but Democrats are about to dump a steaming pile of reheated slop on Americans, and we need to be prepared.)

First, they've let their party be taken over by hard-left radicals. Instead of whizzing into the new year high on their endless Trump bashing, the Democrat Party is limping into 2026 as the battered, bloodied victims of Mr. Jazz Hands himself, Tim Walz, and his dazzling corruption. (Well, not so much victims as willing participants, but let's just go with victims for now because, from the outside, they look kind of pummeled.)

Secondly, the thought of Hakeem Jeffries, hand-picked by Nancy Pelosi to be her successor, inspires confidence in absolutely no one except the inhabitants of MS NOW's green room. He's weak on crime, did nothing to stop the Biden-era invasion at our southern border, and backed New York–style bail reforms as violent crime surged. Seeing that guy wield the speaker's gavel would be a travesty. 

Thirdly, there's the money situation. Kamala Harris's presidential campaign almost bankrupted them into oblivion, spending north of $1.5 billion in only 107 days. Things are so bad the DNC recently had to take out a $15 million loanbecause its cash reserves were rapidly dwindling. Winning the House will be an expensive proposition, and they are what the Brits would describe as "skint."

And, finally, they are a party completely bereft of ideas. They love abortion and illegals, hate Trump and prosperity (unless they're the beneficiaries, of course) and, well, that's about it. A party full of razzle-dazzle they are not. 

So, what's a party to do when the midterms are upon them and their chief villain is set to light the campaign trail on fire? Rehash old slop, apparently.

As RedState's Rusty Weiss reported a few days back, President Trump has big plans to campaign for GOP candidates next year. The party that wins the White House tends to lose seats in the next midterm elections, so Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, says the president is "going to campaign like it's 2024 again."

"Typically, in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it," Wiles said in an appearance on "The Mom View"  podcast. "We're actually going to turn that on its head and put him on the ballot."

"Because so many of those low propensity voters are Trump voters," she added, noting that some results in 2025 show "what happens when he’s not on the ballot and not active."

"He's going to campaign like it's 2024 again…He's a difference maker, and he's certainly a turnout machine."

Trump is great at in-person rallying, which clearly has the Democrats nervous. Their solution? Campaign like it's 2021 again. 

In January, the aforementioned Hakeem Jeffries is planning to reconvene the J6 committee to mark the five-year anniversary of "that day," writing in a “Dear Colleague” letter that the hearing was intended to review the Trump administration’s impact on elections.

“At the hearing, we will examine ongoing threats to free and fair elections posed by an out-of-control Trump administration, expose the election deniers who hold high-level positions of significance in the executive branch and detail the threats to public safety posed by the hundreds of violent felons who were pardoned on the President’s first day in office,” Jeffries wrote.

“We will also present a panel of members who wish to share their personal experiences from that horrific day,” he added, making a call for “members who wish to share their personal experiences from that horrific day.”

Once they've beaten that dead horse, Democrats will lean heavily into casting doubt on election integrity. Trump, they'll say, sent troops into blue cities and will likely use those troops to patrol polling sites on Election Day. 

Right on cue, DNC chairman Ken Martin comes along and says to the AP, “What he is going to do is send those troops there, and keep them there all the way through the next election, because guess what? If people are afraid of leaving their house, they’re probably not going to leave their house to go vote on Election Day. That’s how he stays in power.”

This is pretty rich coming from the party that just willingly kept the federal government closed and held needy Americans hostage through and past Election Day 2025, no?

Democrats will also engage in fear mongering over the Trump administration's efforts to have states clean up their voter rolls before the midterms. “What the DOJ is trying to do is something that should frighten everybody across the political spectrum,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department voting rights attorney and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “They’re trying to use the power of the executive to bully states into turning over highly sensitive data — date of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license, the Holy Trinity of identity theft — hand it over to the DOJ for who knows what use.”

Egads, not names and dates of birth! Why, having voters prove their identities will cause pandemonium and chaos!

In other words, Democrats aren’t capable of running on a bold, new vision for the United States because they're way too busy sprinting backwards. When your best “plan” for 2026 involves rerunning January 6 hearings and crying about cleaned-up voter rolls, you're pretty much admitting you’ve got nothing to offer.

Liz Cheney was unavailable for comment.