{"id":3958,"date":"2026-07-26T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:12:13","slug":"gop-strategist-democrats-are-destroying-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"GOP strategist: Democrats are destroying themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump is so weak that political experts anticipate potentially Democrats flipping the House of Representatives, Senate or both \u2014 and yet an anti-Trump Republican strategist warns they may be undone by incompetence at the top of their organization. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3956\">Trump official just blew up one of his favorite delusions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic National Committee is failing every person reading these words,\u201d Steve Schmidt, who advised President George W. Bush, wrote for his Substack on Sunday. \u201cYou should be very angry about it because that failure is neither providential nor pre-ordained. It\u2019s a choice \u2014 like Trump \u2014 and it\u2019s killing the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt reviewed the party\u2019s financial travails, writing that \u201cthe MAGA Republicans have more than $128.5 million cash on hand compared to the Democratic National Committee, which is more than $2 million in debt. It\u2019s also on track to spend exponentially more money on politics in Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Marianas, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa than across Mississippi and Louisiana, both of which have great US Senate candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable. The DNC is terribly led by Chairman Ken Martin. A sign of the political ineptitude of both [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer and [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries is their inability to deal with what must be dealt with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to quote The New York Times story that shed light on these travails. The report found that when it came to Democrats\u2019 troubles \u201cat the center is Ken Martin, the 53-year-old party chairman, who has found himself increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts, according to interviews with more than two dozen Democrats, including current and former D.N.C. officials and members. Most of them spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the party\u2019s troubled state of affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3954\">Republicans in panic mode over \u2018scary\u2019 signs their base won\u2019t show up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Times added, \u201cMr. Martin\u2019s fraying nerves are showing. In a pique of frustration in early July, he threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while upbraiding the person. The phone-tossing incident resulted in a formal complaint to the D.N.C.\u2019s human resources department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt condemned Martin\u2019s reported behavior, writing that \u201cpersonally, I\u2019m sick of the tolerance for losing and the Democratic Party mediocrities, careerists and hustlers who can\u2019t, won\u2019t, and will never stop losing because deep down they\u2019re simply doing what they\u2019re good at: losing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThe problem is that we\u2019re losing the country because it isn\u2019t being properly defended by the institution that\u2019s built to stand up to MAGA and be for something better. It\u2019s one of the foremost tragedies of this whole era. It\u2019s deeply true and very real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AlterNet previously reported on criticisms of Martin\u2019s performance. In June anonymous high-ranking DNC sources told AlterNet that Martin has failed to prepare for Trump\u2019s attacks on mail-in voting, mishandled releasing an autopsy of its failed 2024 presidential campaign and refused to adequately address threats to voting security on electronic machines, even though it admitted that &#8220;any assessment of the state of technology in the Democratic party would be incomplete without an acknowledgement that comprehensive data warehouses like Phoenix represent an irresistible target for hackers and other bad actors seeking to undermine the integrity of the modern political process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3953\">Arizona Republicans just can\u2019t quit the tin foil \u2014 but it could cost them<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is so weak that political experts anticipate potentially Democrats flipping the House of Representatives, Senate or both \u2014 and yet an anti-Trump Republican strategist warns they may be undone by incompetence at the top of their organization. \u201cThe Democratic National Committee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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