As Democrats overperform in off-year elections, GOP frets over Trump voter turnout

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Though Schimel won 63% of the number of votes Trump received in November - exceeding the 60% mark Republicans estimated they needed to win - Crawford won 78% of the number of votes Vice President Kamala Harris received.
48% : Crawford won ten counties that backed Trump in November, including Green Bay's Brown County, where Musk gave out two $1 million checks to voters at an event the weekend before the election.
45% : That bet paid off for the president, but Republicans in other races struggled to harness that support for themselves, even when they shared the ballot with Trump.
43% : Turning out Trump loyalists who vote infrequently could be key to Republicans' electoral fortunes, especially as the president's agenda risks pushing away independent and moderate swing voters.
36% : Schimel lost despite Trump hosting a tele-rally to back him and Tesla CEO Elon Muskcombining with allied groups to spend more than $20 million to boost him.
34% : " A 2018 repeat? Democrats have argued that the issue for Republicans isn't with infrequent voters, but with swing voters who elected Trump to lower prices and improve the economy.
32% : A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week found that Trump had a 43% approval rating, with 52% of Americans saying they agree tariffs on imported goods would do more harm than good and 57% viewing the president's moves to shake up the economy as too erratic.
30% : One GOP political operative familiar with House campaigns said the party is still on offense and pointed to the 13 US House districts Trump won in 2024 that are held by Democrats.
30% : "Donald Trump is president in no small part because of low propensity voters who turn out to vote for him," he told CNN.
29% : While Trump won in Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin last year, the Republican Senate candidates he endorsed in those states lost after receiving several thousand fewer votes than the president.
22% : He pointed to Wisconsin, where Brad Schimel, a conservative state Supreme Court candidate endorsed by Trump, lost to liberal Susan Crawford.
2% : The party that wins the White House historically loses seats in midterm cycle that follows, and voters have become increasingly willing to back split government - Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden all lost the House two years after first being elected.

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