{"id":991,"date":"2026-06-04T04:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:10:19","slug":"republican-strategist-nails-trumps-excruciating-tuesday-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Republican strategist nails Trump\u2019s excruciating Tuesday defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican strategist Rina Shah says there are very clear reasons President Donald Trump got dunked by his own party on Wednesday, and he has no one to blame but himself.<\/p>\n

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House Republicans, for the first time in months, failed to block a Democratic effort to halt the Iran war. The four Republican defectors who joined Democrats in tanking the GOP shutout are the latest sign that members of the president\u2019s own party are willing to buck him on key policies.<\/p>\n

The Wednesday loss, the latest in Trump\u2019s recent losing streak, was made possible by swing district Republicans Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and Warren Davidson of Ohio, joined by Tom Massie (R-Ky.), who Trump got tossed from a GOP primary by endorsing his Republican rival. <\/p>\n

The 215-208 bipartisan vote is mostly symbolic, considering Trump will likely veto legislation that restricts his authority. However, the message the vote sends to the White House is likely coming in loud and clear.<\/p>\n

When Burnett asked Shah if Trump\u2019s coalition is finally falling apart Shah answered \u201cI think so, and it’s because the G cubed: gas, groceries, geopolitics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo me, it’s the war that’s done it completely,\u201d added Shah. \u201cTrump promised no more wars, no more endless wars. And there’s an entire swath of the Republican Party that is keeping mum and just saying, \u2018we could take it all, the ballroom, even a slush fund, even J6 \u2026. But when you start to talk democracy, you lose people, especially Republican voters. So you have to talk hard costs. The hard costs of this conflict have been tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what we saw on Monday, the reports out of that call with [Israeli leader] Netanyahu, have been really shocking to members of congress who are Republicans,\u201d said Shah, citing an irate phone conversation with Trump dressing down Netanyahu for aggravating violence in southern Lebanon as Trump desperately seeks an offramp to his Iran war disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndependent Americans Podcast\u201d host Paul Rieckhoff agreed that the Republican vote shaving Trump\u2019s power on Tuesday is a result of a convergence of U.S. voter anger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really, really an important crossroads for America in a new phase of what could be a new forever war, because it’s bigger than Iran,\u201d said Rieckhoff. \u201cBut, but this has been amazing in that it’s unified America against Trump. Republicans, Democrats, everybody in between, especially Independents, are deeply opposed to the Iran war. It’s unauthorized, it’s unwise, and it’s deeply unpopular. And I think the politicians are actually behind the country on this. \u2026 The problem is that Trump has been all gas and no brakes, and nothing has stopped him until now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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