{"id":60119,"date":"2026-04-12T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=60119"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:24:08","slug":"the-central-point-on-the-american-republican-party-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2026\/04\/12\/the-central-point-on-the-american-republican-party-map\/","title":{"rendered":"The central point on the American Republican Party map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A familiar sight in electioneering &#8212; the opportunities of campaign dwindle to a handful for the unpopular incumbent &#8212; Obama needs to be out campaigning for someone In 2010, but true swing states cut him off &#8212; the only place he can find are some heavily black or heavily college districts and the man running against Christine O&#8217;Donnell throws him a bone.  The circumstances are maybe a little different in this election cycle, but it is a desperate special election batch with, for instance, House Speaker Johnson rolls to a Trump +25 seat and carried a voice message call from Trump to maintain a hold and a seven point victory against a generic Democratic activist.  Where will Trump show up &#8212; I don&#8217;t know, we are in Biden 2022 territory where he may just go wherewithal scarily lighted doom speech and then physically disappear &#8212; yeah, he came out swinging against Massie, but that&#8217;s a primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the most important election for the current American conservative movement is taking place.  Over in Hungary.  Victor Orban is holding on for fear life and has brought in the big guns to rally the base &#8212; enter Vice President JD Vance, enter a call in from Donald Trump to the cheering crowd, and enter a message Hungarian patriots to vote to stop powerful  foreign and international movements from coming in tell them how they should run their country.  The mind reels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to assess where to campaign &#8212; various red districts dotting the US, they won&#8217;t admit they have to put in money to Texas until they have to, but the real stop gap to hold and aid future political victory is Hungary.  If Hungary falls, all is lost &#8212; it will be hard to pick up the pieces and how is JD Vance going to shuffle together the political map to get to 270 electoral votes in 2028 when Hungary is automatically Newsom Country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar sight in electioneering &#8212; the opportunities of campaign dwindle to a handful for the unpopular incumbent &#8212; Obama needs to be out campaigning for someone In 2010, but true swing states cut him off &#8212; the only place he can find are some heavily black or heavily college districts and the man running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60120,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60119\/revisions\/60120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}