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Inside the GOP’s Campaign to Stop Socialist Candidates

Virginia Grace McKinnon

Communism is on the ballot this November. That’s the message coming from GOP leaders who spoke at the 2026 Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention this week.

At the event, nearly every speaker touched on the radical Left and the socialist candidates that, they say, want communism in America.

“This is an election between common sense and communism, between America-loving patriots and hate-America extremists, between freedom and tyranny,” Majority Whip Tom Emmer said.

It’s an effective play—but also high stakes if the narrative takes root. What if the GOP gets crushed by commies?

Here’s their plan to avoid that.

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“I think most people realize what the stakes are,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told the Daily Signal. “It is really for the survival of the republic.”

“You’ve got one side of the aisle that is quite explicitly running on a platform of tearing apart our constitutional foundations, abolishing the presidency, abolishing the Senate, and defunding the military—I mean, ideas that are genuinely insane. And I think they realize that Republicans are here, and we’ve got a platform to run on,” he continued.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke with the same intensity.

“We have two competing visions battling for the soul of America: … common sense versus extremism,” he said. “Commonsense Americans believe in merit, not DEI........

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