The election

How Abdul El-Sayed swung young men from Trump by 55 points in Michigan

Alternet -   It was unfamiliar territory for an entertainment channel that typically reveres President Donald Trump, but Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” Saturday edition had no choice but to come to terms with Trump’s culpability in the recent Tuesday destruction that bowled Republicans out of their House and Senate majorities.

“[L]ook, I'm going to be blunt here: His demeanor, his focus on things that Americans were not talking about, like arches and ballrooms and, and reflecting pools certainly added to his problem,” said founder and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies, John Zogby, speaking of the Republican rout, and the particularly dramatic flip of the state of Texas blue

Zogby added that as a growing state and a more affordable state than California, Texas had an influx of suburban creative class people who work in the knowledge sector, along with a lot of young people coming in and “making for a new Texas.”

“This was going to happen sooner or later. What it always needed was the right candidate, the right moment. This was the right moment,” said Zogby, but he insisted that “the Republican brand has been hurt all over and it was hurt in Texas.”