Increasing Republican Seats in the House and Senate

This is the first of several articles about how Republicans can ensure re-electing President Trump. It will also focus on increasing their numbers in the US Senate and House of Representatives. It should be noted that the most important key to re-electing President Trump is to be presiding over a strong economy in 2020.

Get in line with the Party’s leader.

This article will touch on eight additional keys to victory and why each is important. Upcoming articles will go into much more detail about how each key objective can be achieved. Presented below are broad themes, some of which may fly against conventional wisdom.

Weaken the Mainstream Media’s Influence Over the USA’s Political Landscape

The mainstream media has now fully aligned itself with the Democrat Party, and spins and frames news coverage to support Democrat Party positions and talking points. Having the media on its side is currently the Democrats’ biggest advantage in any competitive election. Every successful action that the Republicans can take to discredit and reduce the mainstream media’s influence, or to redirect part of its audience to alternative (conservative) information sources, will improve its chances of victory on election day.

Define the Democrats by Their Most Extreme Positions

The Democrat Party has moved steadily to the left, and many of its policy positions are now wildly out of touch with the priorities and values of most Americans. Republicans should do everything possible to define the Democrat Party by its support of the following unpopular positions: Open borders, calls to abolish ICE, sanctuary cities, free healthcare for illegal aliens, abortions up to the point of live birth, reparations for slavery. This one is a bit tricky, but I would also recommend that Republicans push back hard against Democrat demands for forgiveness of college debts.

When college debts are forgiven, this means that they must be repaid by the rest of us who are taxpayers. This includes those who have already made great efforts to pay off their own college debts and poorer Americans who never attended college. Highlighting that Democrats expect people who never had a chance to go to college to have to help pay off college debts of wealthier middle class Americans is likely a big political winner for Republicans.

Get the Messaging Around Border Control, Illegal Aliens, and Legal Immigration Exactly Right

This is primarily a messaging issue, as far as re-electing President Trump goes. The majority of Americans already agree with Republican positions in this area. However, Democrats and their servants in the media will continue to do everything possible to blur the distinction between immigrants who come to the USA legally and those who come here illegally. They will try to re-define Republican opposition to illegal aliens into their false narrative that President Trump and Republicans are anti-immigrant, and therefore are racist and hostile to people of color.

Republicans must consistently and forcefully insist that there is a wide difference between illegal aliens who have broken the laws of our country and legal immigrants who have respected our laws and become residents the right way. There is also huge political gain to be made by constantly reminding the public that Democrats are much more concerned with the welfare of illegal aliens than the welfare of our own American citizens.

Be Ready With a Health Care Plan That Covers Pre-Existing Conditions

Republican must have a solid Health Care proposal which covers pre-existing conditions developed, and ready to present prior to the 2020 elections. Healthcare was the primary issue that Democrats used in 2018 in their successful effort to retake the House of Reps. If Republicans allow it to happen again in 2020, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

Intensify Efforts to Break up the Democrats’ Increasingly Fragile Coalition

Today’s Democrat Party primarily consists of moderate (center/center left) whites, leftist white liberals, and members of ethnic minority groups. Most policy positions of the Party are driven by the white liberal portion of the coalition. As white liberals move the Party increasingly to the left, they are widening the policy and cultural gap between themselves and much of the rest of their coalition.

Millions of family values oriented Hispanics, Asians, and African Americans no longer share the priorities of leftist white liberals. Millions of Catholic Hispanics, for example, are quite conservative and do not approve of abortion on demand. White leftists in the Party are correctly afraid that more moderate whites, blacks, and Hispanics are in danger of being pulled away or deciding to Walk Away, thus re-electing President Trump.

This is why they, and their servants in the media, are intensifying their hysterical accusations of racism against Republicans. Republicans need to continue to highlight how extreme the Democrats have become (Key #2 above). They also need to continue to push back against the false narrative that Republicans are racists, while engaging in a welcoming way with the Hispanic, Asian, and African American minorities.

Pin the Blame for Political Correctness and Identity Politics on the Democrat Party

Whether it be restrictions on free speech, demands for victim status and preferential treatment for certain groups, or more general measures to stigmatize white Americans – political correctness and identity politics have become hugely unpopular with the vast majority of American citizens. Republicans should talk directly about how harmful these policies and measures are.

Voters should be made explicitly aware that the Democrats are the ones responsible for pushing this nonsense onto our culture, our places of work, and our institutions. We must make sure they understand Republicans will be pushing back aggressively against the stifling effects of both identity politics and PC Culture. One way to do that is re-electing President Trump.

Push Back Hard Against Democrat’s Demonization of White Males

White males are the second largest US voting block (second only to white females). There is seething (under the surface) anger about being constantly shamed and belittled by Democrats, the media, and the entertainment industry. Democrats attack white males because they believe it helps solidify their support with minority groups and women.

What they mistakenly fail to recognize is that this tactic is costing them millions of votes from white men – as demonstrated in the 2016 election. They also fail to realize that white women (America’s largest voting block) are offended by this almost as much as white men are. Most white women deeply love their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons. They don’t enjoy watching them being belittled and attacked.

Many are specifically worried about having their sons treated like second class citizens in the culture Democrats seem to be creating. With Democrats actively attacking white Americans (six campaign workers were just forced out of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the sin of “being white”), the Trump campaign should openly highlight this as an issue. This in addition to setting a target to get 65% of the white vote in 2020.

Re-Electing Trump: Pull Elected Republican Politicians in Line With President Trump and their Base

In 2016, Donald Trump successfully ran against both the Democrat and Republican Party establishments and was elected President. In 2020, he is running as the President of the United States and the leader of the Republican Party. In order to ensure re-electing him, both the President and the Republican Party as a whole will fare better if there is a unified Republican message that clearly explains what Republicans will do for the American people.

They must make sure they show that they have a clear plan to achieve it. There is no longer room for re-electing Republican politicians like Mitt Romney and a few others who actively look to sabotage the president. The good news is that the Republican base is solidly in support of President. If asked by the President, they will be willing to flood the offices of wayward Republicans and demand they get in line with the Party’s leader and its message.