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

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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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	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.6	The sharp turn in Donald Trump's political fortunes is a remarkable thing to behold.
0:47.3	In Tuesday's elections, Democrats won crushing victories across the board, making big inroads with working class voters, and handily winning the California referendum which could result in five more Democratic House seats. There was much more like that. Trump's response to all this was to blame everyone but himself. He rebuked Republican senators over the shutdown. He claimed that the losses
0:56.2	were because he wasn't on the ballot, and at one point he snapped at Republicans saying the party would be
1:01.9	dead if it doesn't end the filibuster to resolve the shutdown. Meanwhile, on still another front,
1:08.3	Trump's tariffs suddenly look as if they may lose before the Supreme Court.
1:12.8	In some, all the lawlessness and corruption ran smack into a big blue wave.
1:18.0	But can that wave be sustained?
1:20.5	We're working through all of this with New Republic's senior editor Alex Shepard,
1:24.3	who has a good new piece digging into the anger of the Democratic base and what it means.
1:28.8	Alex, good to have you on, as always.
1:30.7	It's great to be back.
1:32.3	So let's just go through the top line victories really quickly.
1:35.3	Abigail Spanberger and Mickey Sherrill won the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races by 15 and 13 points, both big gains over four years ago. Democrats won trifectas in both
1:47.1	state legislatures in large gains. Voters overwhelmingly passed Prop 50 in California. Democratic judges
1:54.6	on the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania held on, and that was pretty dicey. There's much,
2:00.1	much more like that. Alex, it's standard for a
2:02.6	party to do well and off-year elections when the opposition controls the White House, but can
2:06.6	you talk about why this represents such a dramatic overperformance? Yeah, I mean, I think that the
2:12.2	situation in the country is really not great, right? In a lot of ways, But I think that, you know, more to the point that,
2:19.0	you know, in a lot of ways, I think we, myself very much included, overthought the 2024 election
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