Donald Trump and the GOP Are Headed for a Monumental Midterm Collision

Shankar Narayan
9 min readJun 16, 2021

Who Will Win?

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When Trump campaigned for Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on January 4th, instead of talking about the candidates, he ranted and raved for more than an hour, litigating his election loss to a vociferous crowd in Georgia.

An aerial view may lull someone into thinking that Georgia is turning into a deep blue state, as it went from Democrat Stacey Abrams losing a statewide race by 54k votes against GOP’s Brian Kemp in 2018 to Biden winning the Presidential election by 11k votes to Raphael Warnock winning the Senate seat in Georgia by 93k votes.

But the reality is Donald Trump killed GOP’s chances in the state by convincing Republican voters that their vote does not count as the system is rigged beyond belief. Despite getting his ass kicked by Biden in the Presidential election, the liar-in-chief has made more than half of Republican voters believe that the Democrats stole the election from him.

A naive Republican GA lawmaker told Politico, “He should have learned from what happened in Georgia. Instead, he cost us Georgia by focusing on the election.” I call him naive because he assumes Trump's actions as an honest mistake by an aggrieved man who lost the election.

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Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.