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'Bro We Need Your Vote': Matt Gaetz and a Desperate GOP Wrestle With Trump's Unpopularity

The disgraced former congressman is imploring voters not to abandon Republicans over gas prices and war with Iran.

Nick Gillespie | 9.23.2026 2:30 PM

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"Bro we need your vote," former congressman and attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz posted on X on Tuesday. "I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to trans your kids."

Gaetz, who withdrew his nomination to be President Donald Trump's attorney general amid reports of sex with underage women and other improprieties, was replying to a Florida voter who declared, "When I vote for a Democrat…for the first time in my 41 years of life this November, it will not be because my values have changed, but because my party has abandoned our values for the sycophancy of a transactional leader who has none."

The ex-congressman's bid for continued support of the party of Lincoln is pathetic because it ignores the voter's complaint and instead offers up an old, overhyped fear. Yet it perfectly encapsulates an increasingly strong feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA movement, at least as it pertains to the midterm elections. There is virtual unanimity among election watchers and prediction markets that the Republicans will lose the House in November; the only question remaining is by how many seats. And, as pollster Nate Silver puts it, "it's no longer accurate to describe the battle for the U.S. Senate as a 'toss-up.' In our terminology, that designation covers all races where neither party has more than a 60 percent chance of winning. But Democrats' Senate chances are now between 63 percent........

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