GOP lawmakers returning from their Doral retreat are voicing deep frustration about the party’s lack of accomplishments and are divided over how to spend their remaining time in power.

House Republican leaders are publicly projecting confidence about their chances of holding the majority in the midterms. Privately, many of their members sound far less certain.

Gathered this week at a Trump-owned resort in Doral, Florida, to coordinate strategy for the rest of the legislative year and the looming campaign season, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struck an upbeat tone, telling reporters, “Do not bet against the House Republicans” as they try to maintain their narrow edge in the chamber.

But beneath the public optimism, there is deep frustration — and, in some cases, outright pessimism — simmering inside Johnson’s conference.

“No one thinks we’re keeping the majority except for the speaker,” one House Republican, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal sentiment, told MS NOW.

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    The DNC has been draining the “victory fund” that was stolen from the state parties and were a year deep into the largest reinvesture from DNC to state parties everywhere…

    That and going back to “fight everywhere” is why we keep flipping special elections.

    You don’t need to hope, it’s already happening.

    If you’re hoping billionaire owned mainstream media decides to tell you about it tho, you’ll be waiting a long time. They’re not happy about it, and they’re doing a pretty good job of keeping the masses ignorant, there’s no reason they’d change course

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      Let’s add to that giving people someone to vote for.

      DNC strategy had been to run dogshit candidates because “hey who are you else are you going to vote for?”

      The candidates that are winning now are further left and not water carriers. The base finally gets the problem it created by listening to blue maga/ ABWD as long as they did.

      You can’t change change an electorate, at least not in the course of one election cycle. You want to change an electorate? Start speaking the truth and keep giving the same speech as nauseum just like uncle Bernie did. But in the course of a single election, run candidate that meet the electorate where they are at.

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        I love Bernie, but he was boring as shit and clearly didn’t win. Repeating things is fine to an extent, but you need more than three sentences.

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          You know that Bernie lost the primary because the DNC cheated for Hilary, right?

          Yes those documents were leaked by Russians. But they still existed. (Mostly, at least.)

          The entire primary set up also is pretty biased. We don’t know how Bernie would have done outside a couple states because most states never got a primary vote.

          Further, Hilary was soft amid the same people that were passionate for Bernie.

          He might’ve been “boring” but he actually had a chance at winning and the DNC decided to fuck that up.

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            It wasn’t primarily the DNC.

            The biggest "cheat’ was the media lying about superdelegates as though they had already voted.