Angry Trump Snaps at GOPers as Scale of Losses Sinks In: “Dead Party”

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In Tuesday’s elections, Democrats scored crushing victories everywhere. They won the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races by double digits, made big inroads with working class voters, handily won the California referendum, which could result in five more Democratic House seats, and more. Yet Trump is blaming everyone but himself. Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio reports that he privately rebuked GOP Senators, suggesting their shutdown was the culprit. He urged them to nuke the filibuster to end the shutdown, claiming failure could render the GOP a “dead party.” And he angrily snapped at Senator Lindsey Graham in the process. In short, Trump cannot accept something fundamental: His coalition is much more fragile than advertised, and he is making it even worse by, well, wrecking the country. We talked to New Republic senior editor Alex Shephard, who has a good new piece on the energy driving Democrats. We discuss the shift of working class voters toward Democrats, the media’s hangover from overreading Trump’s 2024 win, and the through line connecting those gubernatorial victories with Zohran Mamdani’s triumph. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:23.6	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:27.6	Thanks, Canva. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:46.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:01.7	The sharp turn in Donald Trump's political fortunes is a remarkable thing to behold.
1:08.3	In Tuesday's elections, Democrats won crushing victories across the board, making big inroads with working class voters voters and handily winning the California referendum,
1:12.8	which could result in five more Democratic House seats.
1:15.9	There was much more like that.
1:18.0	Trump's response to all this was to blame everyone but himself.
1:21.7	He rebuked Republican senators over the shutdown.
1:25.0	He claimed that the losses were because he wasn't on the ballot, and at one point
1:29.2	he snapped at Republicans saying the party would be dead if it doesn't end the filibuster to resolve the
1:34.9	shutdown. Meanwhile, on still another front, Trump's tariffs suddenly look as if they may lose before
1:40.9	the Supreme Court. In some, all the lawlessness and corruption ran smack into a big blue wave.
1:48.1	But can that wave be sustained?
1:50.6	We're working through all of this with New Republic's senior editor Alex Shepard,
1:54.3	who has a good new piece digging into the anger of the Democratic base and what it means.
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