Ron DeSantis Pins Blame For GOP's Midterm Flop On Surprising Factors

HuffPost · Ron Dicker · 2026-11-05 11:47 UTC

The Florida governor, who made it clear that the results were a rebuke of Trump, took his scapegoating in another direction.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) suggested Wednesday that Democrats’ triumph in the midterm elections was primarily due to Republicans’ unwillingness to enact “bold conservative” legislation.

And many GOP voters stayed away because of that, he said.

The governor, who is perhaps trying to position himself for another run at the presidency after his failed 2024 attempt, declared the Democratic takeover of the House and Senate to be an unquestionable rebuke of President Donald Trump and Congress. But DeSantis zeroed in on what he saw as Congress’ shortage of right-wing lawmaking.

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